Jonathan Kozol Quotes

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.

Jerry Saltz

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I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday Night Live' and thought that was what I wanted to do - funny sketches and comedies. So I knew then, but I didn't know how to go about it, but I found my way.

Jerry Trainor

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By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

Jeremy Grantham

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I had low self-esteem.

Jennifer O'Neill

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I can't imagine how people will react to my music. For me, it's a really fluid process from one record to the next, but it's really up to the listener.

Jenny Lewis

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Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.

John Madden

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Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Robert Indiana

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And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

Slick Rick

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When we're looking at strategic partners, it may be that they're larger partners or big corporations or start-ups. But, when you look at Gilt and places like Amazon and Starbucks, they're all places where it's a lot of foot traffic or digital traffic.

Troy Carter

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We need to know who's in the United States. We need to know everyone who's in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren't. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol.

Rudy Giuliani

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To see a small, modest team built on hard work, where the players are so close, so together, win week after week, stay up there and play so well, when they're so consistent and they win the league, that makes people take them to their hearts.

Diego Godin

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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

Desmond Tutu

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