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Junot Diaz Quotes

When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it's ranked, it definitely is the one place that I get to be beautiful.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Beautiful Space Writing Better Place

Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.

Jewel

Girl Amazing Me Pressure Look Air

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowledge Doubt Grows

I used to read comics when I was a kid.

Jeff Bridges

Kid Used Read Comics

People try to live vicariously through fighters, but it's one-on-one; it's primal. There's no other feeling like it. The problem for me was accepting it - that nothing compares to being champ.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Live People Me Problem Feeling Try

It's difficult to have the Africa Cup of Nations during the season because you focus on the league, and then you go to Africa, then straightaway you come back and have to refocus in the league.

Riyad Mahrez

Focus You Back Go Africa Difficult

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

Michael Shermer

Time You Ahead Matter Out Position

I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did.

Jose Andres

Food Street Singapore Dishes Did

I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.

Bruce Willis

Work Death Out Her Got Film

If I didn't do music, I would do something to help people out.

Anne-Marie

Music People Help Out Something

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Plato

Love Beautiful Way Educated To Love

As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.

Rene Cassin

Hope Peace War Succeed World Honor

What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

Richard Dawkins

Think Facts You Matters Discover