Jonathan Kozol Quotes

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

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• I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Wise
  • Back

• Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Job
  • Career

• Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Mom

• When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Great
  • Food
  • Down

• When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Job

• Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Appreciate

• I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Career
  • Fashion
  • Chances

• We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nature
  • Government
  • Need

• As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Mother
  • Artist
  • Feelings

• If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Women
  • Equality

• I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Boxing

• I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Music
  • Women
  • Intelligence

• Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Chance
  • Search
  • Lead

• Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

  

  W. L. George
  • Old
  • Vanity
  • Mammoth

• I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Think
  • Law
  • Rule Of Law

• In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Home
  • City
  • Violence

• The children of today are the builders of a brave, new world - a world without want.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • World
  • Children
  • Today

• The only person I have hurt is me.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Hurt

• There have been times that I have found myself in places, and I don't know how I got there, and I don't actually know where I am.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald

• My nickname is 100 percent fan-based. It's not like one day I said, 'Hey, I want to be named Country Breakfast.'

  

  Billy Butler
  • Country
  • Breakfast

• Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.

  

  Nick Turse
  • Trying
  • Military
  • Latin

• Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before.

  

  Eli Broad
  • People
  • Writing
  • Done

• You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

  

  Jonathan Kozol