Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 29, 1947

Topics

GoodBadEmbracePersonalProject

I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do a lot of simple pasta, with great ingredients.

Joe Bastianich

GreatSimpleBreakfastFruitPasta

Johnny Knoxville has such an incredible humanity to him when you meet him. He's so warm and so funny, and he can sort of get into trouble and you sort of forgive him immediately.

Max Winkler

FunnyWarmHumanityYouMeetHim

Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture.

Stephen Kinzer

GreatCultureWorldFirstEmpire

Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system.

Steve Bannon

AmericanNationalismCountrySystem

I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

Toussaint Louverture

LiveMyselfPeopleRetirementWish

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

Mickey Rooney

BoyThirtyYears

I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.

Josh Turner

MeGetting OldKnowOutsideAnything

In the comedy world, there's always been one woman to five men. I think that's changing, that we're being respected more as writers and comedians.

Annaleigh Ashford

MenWomanWorldThinkComedyMore

'Boy' is one of my top-five favorite movies of all time.

Wyatt Russell

TimeMoviesBoyFavorite

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.

Phil Donahue

RealityYouLookThings HappenMost

Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.

Shane Smith

SuccessPassionYouWhateverMost

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.

Tim Berners-Lee

WorldStartTalkingNewPoorRight

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