Jonathan Kozol Quotes
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
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I was fortunate to be able to do two movies with Harold Ramis. He was the kindest of any director with whom I worked. Harold was a genius. On top of his talent, he could do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle faster than anyone! I am lucky to have known him as well as I did. I will miss him.
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I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart.
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Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.
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During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
