Jonathan Kozol Quotes
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.Jonathan Kozol
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
Earl Monroe -
Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
Ida Lupino -
I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
Olivia Holt -
My health is fine.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Samuel Butler -
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
Randall Kennedy
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
Randall Terry -
I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
Hannibal Buress -
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
Karl Malone -
I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
Dan Aykroyd -
Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
Natalie Jeremijenko -
Let's have some new cliches.
Samuel Goldwyn
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My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.
Dan Hawkins -
I don't mind playing spoiler.
Daniel Cormier -
My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
Barbara Boxer -
At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
Magnus Scheving -
The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
Edgar Wright
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In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
Van Morrison -
Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
Zaha Hadid -
I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.
Paul Hogan -
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
Jonathan Kozol