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 am dying to do an action movie. I can do my own stunts; I can do this.
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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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If you're sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating part in the movies are very low, as to be almost negligible, or even in television. But in the theatre, there are still things to do, very interesting, very profound things.
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To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.
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Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has not yet been eased.
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I fight to prioritize black mothers and black children because we deserve to live in a world where our healing is centered and our lives are treated with dignity, respect, and care.
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Immigration is important. We're a nation of immigrants.
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Discrimination is alive and soaring.
