Jonathan Kozol Quotes
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I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
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Every idea has its time.
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Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.
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Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
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I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
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I blog because I have something to say.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.
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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.
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My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.
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Competition and competitive rhetoric can be healthy. It's what drove the United States to pursue the Soviet Union into space, creating countless innovations along the way.
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I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.
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If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.
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I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.
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People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.
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When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
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In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.
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I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.
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Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.
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In America, quite often, for people from a certain economic position two choices become very evident as to their adult life. One is crime, one is the military. And it is quite often that some people choose one or the other, their options not being as many as someone from a higher income.
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The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.
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Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.
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The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.
