Jonathan Kozol Quotes
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.Jonathan Kozol
Quotes to Explore
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
Oprah Winfrey -
I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
B. B. King -
In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
Pankaj Mishra -
I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
Aaron Hill -
In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky -
I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
Harlan Coben -
Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
Barbara Januszkiewicz -
I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
Ian Mckellen -
Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.
Victoria Osteen -
The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz
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I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
Kate Burton -
The building is a domed structure made of white marble inlaid with colourful gemstones in the shapes of flowers. Passage from the Quran are inlaid in black marble.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
I figured out that my passion is not really for music. My passion is actually for people. So the exploration into different musics of different times has to do with trying to figure out who these people are, what this music represents and what context do we want to give it and what does it mean to us right now.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
Camille Paglia -
I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
Lawyers don't run sales forces.
Jeff Raikes
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
Frances Beinecke -
It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish -
Blame is a bitter and indigestible thing, even when the blame is a coat you cut for yourself, even when you stood right there and got yourself measured so you could wear it right.
Roger Jon Ellory -
Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj African Blacks for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.
Al-Jahiz -
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
Jonathan Kozol