Jonathan Kozol Quotes
I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.
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I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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Once you make a cookbook, you live with it as your own for the rest of your life, like a yearbook.
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I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.
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All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.
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Believers talk about trusting in the Lord with their whole heart and refusing to lean on thier own understanding, but no one really knows what that means until circumstances cast them headfirst into a dark and painful place. If we give ourselves fully to God in those moments, we will obtain keepsakes of Him to treasure now and forever.
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I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.
