Jonathan Kozol Quotes
It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
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I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
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One of the most important tasks is to broaden the energy supply ... Energy determines today international security and social as well as economic development in many respects. In reality the wellbeing of millions of people is directly dependent in energy security.
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The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
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You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
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Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.
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It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.
