Jonathan Kozol Quotes

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• We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Find

• Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • You
  • Walking

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Very
  • Well
  • Handle

• But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Than

• I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Up
  • Think
  • Attention

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

  

  Parker Posey
  • She
  • Movie
  • Star

• When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtues
  • Modesty
  • Seldom

• I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Business
  • Rules
  • Fair

• You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Want
  • Best
  • I Can

• With my YouTube videos, I used to edit a lot of my own videos, so I've gotten used to seeing myself on camera.

  

  Megan Nicole

• We have a very robust online business, but convincing luxury houses to join us on the website has involved a lot of groveling.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Business

• On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Question
  • Universe
  • Christian

• Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.

  

  John Cusack
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• If a voter initiative can deny gay people access to traditional representative, democratic processes, then in California, any other small, historically disadvantaged minority group can also be denied the right of representative.

  

  John Perez
  • People
  • Small
  • Gay

• Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
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