Jonathan Kozol Quotes
President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
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I want to have a long career.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
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I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.
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I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my 'Happy People' record. She said that she thought it represented the sprit of her husband. The license is from California. I get inspired every time I look at it.
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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
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My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
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Successful entrepreneurship takes complete dedication and careful strategizing along with market analysis. Plus, successful startups provide countless benefits to a healthy economy and consumers in need.
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
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Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
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According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.
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I wish I were big.
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It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.
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Sometimes doing the gods’ bidding required a hardened heart.
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Historically Tcl has always stored all intermediate results as strings. (With 8.0 they're rethinking that. Of course, Perl rethought that from the start.)
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You might be the leader of the team, but without the rest of the team, you're not doing anything. I think that's the way I look at my job as the lead of a TV show.
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Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.
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I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it.
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Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
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I will always enjoy it, that I was one day the Number One, even, like, when I look back in five years.
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President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.
