Jonathan Kozol Quotes

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

Jonathan Kozol

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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

• 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 trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Opportunity
  • You
  • Realize

• Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

  

  Earl Butz
  • Kind
  • Personality
  • Cold

• But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Play
  • Impossible
  • September

• I consider myself a writer. I always wanted to act, and as a teen, I studied acting devotedly. Eventually, I got writing work, but very little acting work.

  

  Winnie Holzman
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Writer

• There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Think
  • Serious
  • Impression

• For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Great
  • Effort

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

  

  Jonathan Kozol