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Jonathan Kozol Quotes

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Live Knowledge Game Long Expensive

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

John Thorn

Baseball Never Write She First Days

European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.

Roger Daltrey

American Disaster European

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Rose Kennedy

Learning Anxiety Place Take Nor

I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in the modern media fake way, but traditionally - what they went through, what their lives were like.

Ry Cooder

People Fake Musicians Media Way

For the first two years of Eventbrite, all the work was done by just the three founders: me, my husband, Kevin, and our chief technology officer, Renaud Visage.

Julia Hartz

Work Technology Me Husband Three

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.

Chris Crutcher

Life Writing Doing Early Old Years

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

David Sedaris

Art Parents Potential Dangerous

You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone a pet. I'm giving you responsibility, I'm giving you a thing that you now have to take care of for, like, a year until it dies, and then I'm giving you sadness and guilt.

Chelsea Cain

Responsibility Hate Pet Me Plants

My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Chelsea Clinton

Mother Women Business Said True

Freedom used to be something that I dreamed of but never allowed myself to fully imagine.

Chelsea Manning

Freedom Myself Never Used Something

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

Christian Marclay

Good Interesting Someone You Will

How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.

Christopher Buckley

Change Good Light Three Reminisce