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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I quickly realised that it is difficult to get started when writing a novel. You have this dream of what you want to create, but it is like walking around a swimming pool and hesitating to jump in because the water is too cold.
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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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Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.
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Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am freedom.
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If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as to not end up with a situation where we do so only when it is comfortable, profitable and safe?
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We like films that make you laugh, make you cry, make you think, scare you, whatever.
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Discrimination is alive and soaring.
