Jonathan Kozol Quotes
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been a partier.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone - and you will not be.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
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We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.
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We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.
