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 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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There's often more than one correct thing.There's often more than one right thing.There's often more than one obvious thing.
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The Old School Tie can still be seen on the Government benches.
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I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call "Don McLean" when I was probably in high school. And I have been doing this for 40 years, adding songs and writing things, cobbling together albums, doing live things, you know, albums and tours. And then I have records on the charts. I have no idea how this happened.
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There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).
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I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it.
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When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now.
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Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
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The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
