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.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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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.
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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?
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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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.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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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.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I have no political aspirations. That's it.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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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.
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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.
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One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self.
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Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!
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I didn't even listen to any music until I was 19, really. I just wanted to be famous. But I didn't say it to anyone because I was really embarrassed at the thought.
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When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.
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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.
