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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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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The first colours which made a strong impression on me were light juice green, white, crimson red, black and yellow ocher. These memories go back to the third year of my life. I saw these colours on various objects houses and roofs, in Russia which are not as clear in my mind as the colours themselves.
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
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It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.'
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I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.
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Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
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The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
