Jonathan Kozol Quotes
The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over.
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Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box.
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I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.
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The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.
