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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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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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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I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.
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I just started running as part of a nutrition program, to just get a little cardio in, but I was not a runner per se before that. I started about March 1 of 2010.
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This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.
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…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.
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The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
