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.Jonathan Kozol
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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.
Oscar Isaac -
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. Bradley -
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
Malik Bendjelloul -
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky -
I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
Yoko Ono -
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.
Ralph Gibson
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
M. F. Husain -
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.
Naguib Mahfouz -
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.
Ada Yonath -
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.
Abraham Lincoln -
I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
Dane Cook -
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.
Natan Sharansky
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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.
Jack Nicholson -
Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
Fran Lebowitz -
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.
Vera Farmiga -
I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
Bailee Madison -
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.
Karen Thompson Walker -
When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
Aaron Neville
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
Young Thug -
I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.
China Mieville -
Harriet: making an excuse Um... I'm looking for a copy of The Wheat-Free Guide to Creative Visualization in Co-dependent Past-Life Relationships.Mo: Huh. Jeez, I never heard of that one... Wonder if it's in spirituality or cooking.
Alison Bechdel -
Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.
Chris Barber -
Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
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.
Jonathan Kozol