Jonathan Kozol Quotes
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I do not cook.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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I have no wisdom to share on dating.
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I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.
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I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.
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On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.
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When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!
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I am so looking forward to it. I made sure I had a strong foundation before I became pregnant and I think that's the most important thing. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do personally so that when the time came, I really knew who I was and could be the best mother.
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Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.
