Junot Diaz Quotes

When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 31, 1968

Topics

IdentityWorldToughKidRealNerd

I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people are incredibly creative, business is done based on the strength of relationships, and the product being peddled is books.

Jennifer Gilmore

StrengthBusinessHistoryCreative

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

HumorNothingLittleLikeLevity

The playing is great. The traveling is tough. It's a hard thing.

Angus Young

GreatToughHardPlayingTraveling

Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.

Steven Rattner

BusinessMoneyWinningToughChance

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

Tucker Carlson

ChallengePeopleIdeasThinkYou

The U.S. is not pure capitalism. In fact, there's no place for pure capitalism, unregulated capitalism. We have a regulated system.

Lloyd Blankfein

CapitalismPlacePureSystemFact

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.

Chris Ware

MusicRespectArtJazzWayEmotion

I usually wear a lot of really thin gold bands and small studs. Nothing too big.

Cobie Smulders

GoldSmallNothingWearBigReally

I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.

Bonnie Raitt

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Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

Anthony Bourdain

FoodValueToughDieYouUnderstand

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

Peter Scolari

FoolYourselfYouDramaMake

When I started, you didn't focus so much on production, certainly not - gosh - down to the finest little detail of how you shifted your eyes or how you turned to somebody. A lot of the shots were far away from a still camera. There weren't as many close-ups and intimacy.

Shawn Michaels

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