Jonathan Kozol Quotes
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
Quotes to Explore
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.
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The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
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I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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I'm not really the sex symbol type.
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Man, I was scared. I didn't know what to think. All of a sudden, I got a record climbing the charts, and I'm out in the streets. You know, workin' on the docks. And the first week, it sold something like 40,000 in New Orleans.
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I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
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Nothing is yet in its true form.
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Man, if he is to remain man, must advance by way of consciousness. There is no road leading backward. ... We can no longer veil reality from ourselves by renouncing self-consciousness without simultaneously excluding ourselves from the historical course of human existence.
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Der umgang mit frauen ist das element guter sitten.
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A jumped-up little twerp and a prime candidate for exorcism
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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.
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The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
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I was never able to praybut let me inscribe my namein the book of waves.
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I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
