Jonathan Kozol Quotes
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I'm not graceful.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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I was always snobby about soap operas, and commercials, too, but one does have to eat. I remember auditioning for a commercial for a mouthwash or chewing gum or something, and I had to pretend to be the back end of somebody in a horse costume. After that, I said, 'That's it. That's it. You've sunk too far!'
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Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.
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I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.
