Jonathan Kozol Quotes
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
Babe Ruth -
When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
Ted Williams -
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
Salman Rushdie -
Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
Patrick Ness -
The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
Carl Honore
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
Hannah Arendt -
Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.
Orla Brady -
We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.
Ted Cruz -
When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
Ian Mckellen -
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
Ted Nelson
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My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
Gavin Hood -
My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.
Gabrielle Union -
Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
Octavia E. Butler -
I love watching other beauty girls on YouTube, so I get a lot of ideas through their videos. I also get plenty of requests from viewers, which is great. I can never run out of ideas!
Zoe Sugg -
My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.
Taylor Negron -
When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's little brother.
Owen Hart
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Some of the anti-trade sentiment is the result of rising wealth inequality and stagnating real wages.
Arancha Gonzalez -
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
William Shakespeare -
Well, I'm rather attracted to rather prosaic things like vacuum cleaners and hand dryers. Where people haven't apparently made them with a great love for what they're doing.
James Dyson -
You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.
Sigrid Nunez -
Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.
Andie MacDowell -
Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.
Jonathan Kozol