Jonathan Kozol Quotes
Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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Americans want real solutions and good jobs.
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Hell is the inability to love.
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Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.
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I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women in the US could not apply for credit card without their husband's signature to a time where women are the owners of their businesses.
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Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
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Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.
