Jonathan Kozol Quotes

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

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• I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Growing
  • First

• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• People my age don't always know where their music comes from.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Age

• The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • People
  • Growth
  • Golf

• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • True
  • Best
  • Succeed

• Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

  

  Om Puri
  • Just
  • Follow
  • Soldiers

• In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Play
  • Unique
  • Trump

• It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Speak
  • Actor
  • Rare

• Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Family
  • Hand
  • Laws

• You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • Job
  • Learn

• Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Different
  • Me
  • Scary

• My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.

  

  Randolph Scott
  • Reason
  • Interest
  • Impact

• The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • Power
  • Choose
  • Greatest

• I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Security

• If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Laws
  • Open
  • Visa

• The art world as a whole, and museums in particular, belong to what has aptly been called the 'consciousness industry.'

  

  Hans Haacke
  • World
  • Art

• Donald Trump wouldn't work on paper. Obnoxious, crass, boastful, and vulgar, with garish tastes and a Stepford wife - as a fictional character, he'd seem too crudely drawn. Even in a trashy airport thriller, readers wouldn't buy such a boor as president.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Work
  • Character
  • Wife

• I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.

  

  Armistead Maupin
  • People
  • Together
  • Value

• When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Practice
  • Yoga

• I am not guilty, I am innocent.

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • Guilty
  • Innocent
  • Innocence

• It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
  • Children
  • School
  • America