Jonathan Kozol Quotes
I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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You just learn one thing for the day, that can change a fight.
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The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.
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When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.
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Life is not a competition with others. In its truest sense it is a rivalry with ourselves. We should each day seek to break the record of our yesterday. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives; each day to master some weakness of yesterday; each day to repair past follies; each day to surpass...ourselves. And this is but progress.
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I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.
