Jonathan Kozol Quotes
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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It's a challenge for monetary policy to communicate that our inflation objective is 2 percent.
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But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.
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'Our concepts of ballot-box democracy may need to be modified to produce strong governments capable of making difficult decisions.'
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Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.
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I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere.
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If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.
