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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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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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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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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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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Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
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I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
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We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.
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You're the sort of enemy your enemy must love.
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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.
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With this sunrise somehow I felt I was exactly where I was supposed to be... Have faith, the light seemed to announce.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.
