Jonathan Kozol Quotes
The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.
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I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.
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I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.
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They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.
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I think it's hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories.
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The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.
