Jonathan Kozol Quotes
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not a psychiatrist.
-
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
-
I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
-
Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
-
I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
-
Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
-
The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
-
The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
-
I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
-
In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
-
Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
-
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
-
I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
-
I like to think of myself as classy.
-
There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
-
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
-
I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
-
It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
-
Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House.
-
The Supreme Court has said that America is a Christian nation. But to make such a statement today causes reporters, newsmen, and many politicians to go ballistic.
-
When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
-
I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
-
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.
-
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.
