Jonathan Kozol Quotes
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.Jonathan Kozol
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
Kate Winslet -
I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
Frances McDormand -
If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
V. S. Naipaul -
Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
Yahoo Serious -
I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
Vicente Fox -
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
Ulysses S. Grant
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Larry Gelbart -
They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
Ed Gillespie -
I was authorized to do everything that I did.
Oliver North -
In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
Uday Kotak -
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
Sam Hunt
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I have no political aspirations. That's it.
Kapil Dev -
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
Patrick Stewart -
Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
Damon Hill -
Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
Vidya Balan -
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
Naomi Wolf -
It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
Pankaj Patel
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When I'm playing the 1-guard, I'm kind of seeing everything that's going on. When I play the 2, I have a more broader understanding of what's going on and where the screens are being set in order for not only myself to get open, but for my teammates.
Kyrie Irving -
I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.
George Cukor -
The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity.
M. Russell Ballard -
I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.
Adepero Oduye -
I know how to make decisions, and I know how to lead.
Jim Webb -
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
Jonathan Kozol