Jonathan Kozol Quotes
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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I think I need security.
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I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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I believe that Obamacare is bad for America.
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Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this.
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I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'
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If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.
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I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don't drive there, it's a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music.
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I work with a group called Compassion & Choices in California. It's attempting to get death with dignity legalised in California, the idea being that so goes California, so goes the rest of the U.S., at least.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.
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'I feel healthy! I feel happy I feel terrific
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It was one of those perfect autumn days so common in stories and so rare in the real world.
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All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.
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A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
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...those who think their God ... has nowhere so plainly shown himself as in his works, will seek in the face and lineaments of Nature that consoling smile which every lonely soul so miserably craves ... betake thee to the fields; betake thee to the woods ... thou shalt be comforted ... Lay thy tired head on Nature's breast ... always there is at hand the Infinite and the Eternal: about thee, above thee ...
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I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
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I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.
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Discrimination is alive and soaring.
