Jonathan Kozol Quotes

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 5, 1936

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If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

Jim Starlin

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If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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A typical native New Yorker, I'm prone to wearing the city's unofficial sartorial color: black.

Amanda Hearst

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I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.

St. Vincent

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Competition is fun.

Travis Kalanick

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Since I came here I've been treated awesome, in all aspects. I really enjoy playing here.

Mats Sundin

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If you get a good comedy once a year, man, that's pretty good. I may be pickier than some, but still, there aren't that many movies that are really, truly, honestly that funny.

Michael Keaton

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I'm more mature, my game is more mature, and I can do a bunch of things on and off the court to fully maximize this team's potential.

Chris Bosh

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There are fans who just like their indie stars, and then there are your more casual fans that are more familiar with somebody like Kurt Angle, and their interest might be piqued.

Cody Rhodes

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To win you've got to stay in the game.

Claude M. Bristol

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There is no doubt that terrorists acting under the banner of Islam have declared war on us.

Bob Beckel

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