Junot Diaz Quotes

I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't be fun. This shouldn't be comfortable. I'm not looking to make people feel unsafe, but I am looking to make people feel uncomfortable.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I always feel guilty when I want to go get my nails done or hair done because it takes time away, but I know moms need that alone time, too.

Jessie James Decker

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After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It's doing that because people are sticking their shoulders to the wheel. Community banks are doing a lot of lending to small businesses and keeping them going.

Stephen Stills

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Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord's Church and man-made institutions.

Russell M. Nelson

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I did so many open mics. I would write jokes on Twitter constantly, and then slowly, over time, open mics turned into shows. If you can get a joke to work at an open mic, it's a good joke.

Michelle Wolf

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Jean Baudrillard

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It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?

Jordin Sparks

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The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

Antonio Porchia

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One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.

Annie Besant

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I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

Paulo Coelho

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Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners.

Toks Olagundoye

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How success changes the opinion of men!

Maria Edgeworth

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America is a beacon of hope for the world. And yet we are in so much trouble.

Kirk Cameron

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