Jonathan Kozol Quotes

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

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• From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Perspective

• Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Hair
  • Walking

• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Today
  • inspirational

• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choices

• If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Work
  • Want

• People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Place
  • Importance

• To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • People
  • Things
  • Honest

• I can be more cold than people would like me to be.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Me
  • Cold

• I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • People
  • Hope
  • Myself

• The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Car
  • Successful

• People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • People
  • Changes
  • Detail

• All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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  • May
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• When I came up in hip hop, there was no such thing as a Puerto Rican rapper doing hip hop for many mainstream people, so I was the ship, the captain, and the crew.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Up
  • Ship

• I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Me
  • Eye

• People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • People
  • Style
  • Acting

• To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Courage
  • Fight

• I didn't actually know what a vegetarian was until I was 13 years old. I know in this day and age it's hard to believe that, but I think because I grew up on a farm, I wasn't indulged in magazines, newspapers, Internet, television. And so, for some reason, I was never exposed to what a vegetarian was.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Age

• It is truly appalling for Senator Mark Kirk to equate the Obama Administration's diplomacy with Nazi appeasement. As a Jewish-American, I am offended.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • American

• I remember my boyfriend and I had just broken up, and I was like 'I don't care how much it costs, I'm getting my hair bleached!' That's really when everything changed.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
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• We've always had a chip on our shoulders.

  

  Chuck Darby
  • Shoulders
  • Chip

• If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Life
  • Boyfriend

• Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
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