Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes

Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleMeViolenceLookKindAim

We insist that ours is a government of laws, not men, but it is striking how often large historical forces pivot on something so unpredictable as the continued good health of a politician.

Michael Beschloss

GoodGood HealthHealthMenLaws

I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.

Stephen Lewis

YouthWorldCIAJustAssemblyFront

I think it's good to eat a bit of everything, but when you eat too much junk food, it's bad for you and for your brain. You don't understand why, but you feel sad. It's because of the junk food!

Stromae

GoodSadFoodBrainThinkYou

When 'Play' first came out, journalists didn't review it; it didn't get radio play. And then it became this big successful record and, I hate to admit this, I found myself liking the fame. I bought into it.

Moby

MyselfHateAdmitPlayFameRadio

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Louis D. Brandeis

HappinessCourageIndependenceEnd

All my brothers have my father's voice.

Dennis Haysbert

FatherVoiceBrothers

The only way I know to be awesome at startups is to be obsessively focused and pegged to the floor of the deep end, gasping for air.

Chris Sacca

DeepEndKnowFocusedWayAwesome

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Claud Cockburn

BelieveNeverAnythingBeenUntil

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

Bob Newhart

TimeFirst TimeFirstAudienceUp

I was a crazy little seven-year-old. I used to get up an hour early to watch the big kids train. I thought, 'I must absorb their awesomeness.' That was my goal from when I was seven. I told my coach, 'I'm going to the Olympics.'

Bronte Campbell

CrazyThoughtEarlyGoalTrainBig

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

Sean Parker

I AmMeProblemsCareerNeverBeen

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

Scott Turow

BurdenCarryProofProsecutorWho

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