Jonathan Kozol Quotes
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.
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I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
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Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.
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I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.
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I have always been drawn to fashion from an aesthetic and consumer standpoint. I honestly never thought that I could take my business training and apply it here. I worked in retail and was into fashion. It was something I liked, and people trusted my opinion.
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Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
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I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.
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I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and, reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, and so re-read it from the end to the beginning, but with no more satisfactory result.
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A mask of dirty old hairy leather, with two holes and a slit, it was too far gone for the old trick of please your honour and God reward you and pity upon me. It was disastrous.
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I've got two places I like to be. Portugal is one.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
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The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge
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When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.
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The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
