Jonathan Kozol Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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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.
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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.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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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.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.
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Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.
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Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
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I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.
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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.
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The children of today are the builders of a brave, new world - a world without want.
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The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.
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If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
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It's really hard to do this life - to be a human being alone.
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You can kind of feel when things are going to work out.
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People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done - organizing people who are at the bottom.
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We are all stronger, smarter, talented, beautiful, and more resilient than we were told.
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You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.
