Top 100 Diaz Quotes
#1. You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have to. When it came to my brother, it was written across her face in 112-point Tupac Gothic.
Junot Diaz
#2. Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
Junot Diaz
#3. If we don't learn from each others experience, we are forced to listen to people who have economic reasons to withhold critical information from us all. The other option is to wait for the government to tell us what their financial supporters want us to know.
Richard Diaz
#4. I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
Cameron Diaz
#5. Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa.
To the latecomers are left the bones.
Junot Diaz
#6. We went to high school together; he was a year older than me. I remember him there ... he was very tall and skinny, wore lots of ponytails in his head, and I'm pretty sure I bought weed from him. I had to have.
Cameron Diaz
#7. Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
Junot Diaz
#8. I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.
Cameron Diaz
#9. They would be able to tell. Even the most bruto would see the death in your eyes.
Junot Diaz
#10. The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
Bar Paly
#11. I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.
Junot Diaz
#12. My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains ... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.
Madi Diaz
#13. There's something about moonlight on the body and things happening sort of free and open. Outdoors is something I'm totally game and down for.
Cameron Diaz
#14. You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?
Junot Diaz
#15. Never had the opportunity in her first lost childhood; and in the intervening years her desire for it had doubled over and doubled over like a katana being forged until finally it was sharper than the truth.
Junot Diaz
#16. Sure, I liked girls but I was always too terrified to speak to them unless we were arguing or I was calling them stupidos, which was one of my favorite words that year.
Junot Diaz
#17. the squares on your abdomen have been reabsorbed, like tiny islands in a rising sea of lard.
Junot Diaz
#18. I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.
Cameron Diaz
#19. You can't be a human without seeing.
Junot Diaz
#20. God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.
Junot Diaz
#21. Technically, I split my time between N.Y.C. and Boston.
Junot Diaz
#22. My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.
Junot Diaz
#23. I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.
Junot Diaz
#24. To exhaustion and beyond they prayed, to that glittering place where the flesh dies and is born again, where all is agony, and finally, just as La Inca was feeling her spirit begin to loose itself from its earthly pinions, just as the circle began to dissolve
Junot Diaz
#25. We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us.
Junot Diaz
#26. The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.
Junot Diaz
#27. I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.
Junot Diaz
#28. What else she doesn't know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again.
Junot Diaz
#29. Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.
Cameron Diaz
#30. It is probably her son she misses, or the father. Or our whole country, which you never think of until it's gone, which you never love until you're no longer there.
Junot Diaz
#31. Happiness, when it comes, is stronger than all the jerk girls in Santo Domingo combined.
Junot Diaz
#32. Nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens.
Porfirio Diaz
#34. Bruce Willis is Bruce Willis in every single movie I've seen him in, except 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Mortal Thoughts,' which is another movie he was in that was very different from what he normally does.
Guillermo Diaz
#36. I love Rob Zombie - I'd love to work with Rob Zombie or John Cameron Mitchell.
Guillermo Diaz
#37. President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.
Mario Diaz-Balart
#38. I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.
Junot Diaz
#39. From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself.
Jonny Diaz
#40. She didn't seem to mind being the girl you called every couple of months at eleven at night, just to see what she was "up to." As much relationship as she could handle.
Junot Diaz
#41. I was pretty lucky to get into Berklee at all. I never really had any theory or music-reading capabilities; I was completely by ear.
Madi Diaz
#42. There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.
Richard Diaz
#43. To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.
Junot Diaz
#44. The world was ice and the ice burned with sunlight.
Junot Diaz
#45. But hey, it's only a story, with no solid evidence, the kind of shit only a nerd could love.
Junot Diaz
#46. I admire Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. I like a lot of comedians. I like Cameron Diaz - she's funny and has a very light spirit. That's quite rare nowadays. There are many actresses I admire.
Catherine Deneuve
#47. I kind of want to learn how to direct TV. It's interesting.
Melonie Diaz
#48. Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over.
Junot Diaz
#49. There's a little part of you at all times that hopes to be somewhat objectified, and I think it's healthy.
Cameron Diaz
#50. I have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever. And as far as the physicality of it, I feel better at 40 than I did at 25.
Cameron Diaz
#51. Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on,
Cameron Diaz
#52. Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.
Junot Diaz
#54. I would just like to be real and be me. It's just really hard to do walking around and everyone knows who I am.
Nick Diaz
#55. It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.
Charles Portis
#56. Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.
Madi Diaz
#57. Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.
Junot Diaz
#58. My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.
Junot Diaz
#59. I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.
Junot Diaz
#60. I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
Cameron Diaz
#61. People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong.
Junot Diaz
#62. If I have a great game, I don't get too high. If I have a terrible game, I don't get too low. I know that there's more to this life and we were created for more than just to play a game.
Matt Diaz
#63. The best time of day for sex is anytime because it's sex.
Cameron Diaz
#64. I just try to find ways to love the people that I'm around. It's hard sometimes because I'm selfish and I want to focus inwardly but when I can fight against that and look at other people's needs, it's really a stark contrast to what people are used to in such a selfish environment.
Matt Diaz
#65. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it's hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.
Junot Diaz
#67. I am now more sure than ever that we're going to have a bipartisan bill ... making incredible progress.
Mario Diaz-Balart
#68. Anyone can follow a crowd.
It's the leader that follows the facts.
Richard Diaz
#69. Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever.
Richard Diaz
#71. Writing checks with his mouth that his ass could never hope to cover.
Junot Diaz
#72. I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.
Junot Diaz
#73. The world, you tell yourself, will never end.
Junot Diaz
#76. This is how you treat your mother?" she cried. And if I could of I would have broken the entire length of my life across her face, but instead I screamed back, "And this is how you treat your daughter?
Junot Diaz
#77. I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.
Junot Diaz
#78. This is the perfect place for insight, for a person to become somebody better.
Junot Diaz
#79. Garlicky chicken is the best breakfast in the world.
Cameron Diaz
#80. When I got heartbroken at 20, it just felt like someone had spiraled a football right into my skull. At 40, it feels like someone had driven a 757 right through me.
Junot Diaz
#81. The fountain of youth [for me], let's see ... I guess it's exercise, healthy diet, lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex - yes, sex, we need that as human beings. It's healthy, it's natural, it's what we are here to do!
Cameron Diaz
#82. I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
#83. Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty.
Mario Diaz-Balart
#85. In order to love fighting, I have to hate it.
Nick Diaz
#86. That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside wouldn't let me.
Junot Diaz
#87. As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.
Junot Diaz
#88. Regaining health is more difficult an objective then becoming ill. Becoming ill is a random act of ignorance and regaining health is an intentional effort in frustration.
Richard Diaz
#89. Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.
Junot Diaz
#90. Waited for my brother and didn't talk to anybody and nobody talked to her, because she'd always been one of those quiet, semi-retarded girls who you couldn't talk to without being dragged into a whirlpool of dumb stories.
Junot Diaz
#91. It's like Abuela says: Every snake always thinks it's biting into a rat until the day it bites into a mongoose. That
Junot Diaz
#92. No scientific or medical study is valid unless and until a heavy metal assay has been completed on the subject(s).
Richard Diaz
#93. I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to.
Cameron Diaz
#94. We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.
Junot Diaz
#95. Neatly at its foot, a gauze. I hear her gargling in the bathroom. My hands and feet are blue from the cold and I cannot see through the window for the frost and icicles. When Ana Iris starts
Junot Diaz
#96. Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.
Junot Diaz
#97. It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.
Junot Diaz
#98. I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.
Cameron Diaz
#99. We Christians sometimes think we need a plan for evangelism. I don't think Jesus had an evangelism plan. I think He just interacted with the people He came into contact with.
Matt Diaz
#100. Crying all the time had made her more beautiful. Grief will do that sometimes. Not for me. Loretta had left months ago and I still looked like hell.
Junot Diaz
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