Jonathan Kozol Quotes

What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

JobPeopleWorldBelieveBetterYou

My dad's a jeweller, and my mom works for a bank.

Robbie Amell

MomBankWorksDad

I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.

Robert W. Service

RememberLittleI RememberWrote

We realized quickly that wages are only one part of it, that what also matters are the schedules we give people, the hours that they work, the training we give them, the opportunities you provide them. What you've got to do is not just fix one part, but get all of these things moving together.

Judith McKenna

WorkTogetherTrainingPeopleMoving

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

Brian d'Arcy James

AmazingSisterLaughComedySomeone

The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the fight against aids - can affect Americans. As has been observed about water pollution, we all live downstream now.

Shashi Tharoor

LiveWaterFightInternetPollution

When I was six, someone in my family gave me a yellow pencil holder that had my name printed on it. I still have it, and when I'm doing table work in rehearsal, I use it to carry my highlighters and other writing utensils. I love it.

Seth Numrich

WorkFamilyLoveYellowMeWriting

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

Norman McLaren

QualityIntelligenceManHuman Spirit

I love my BlackBerry, I love my Apple Mac, I love technology.

Richard Desmond

LoveTechnologyAppleMacBlackberry

I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.

Richard Dawkins

GovernmentPeopleThinkUpWear

For me, I've always wanted to portray roles that are empowering. Also, being empowering doesn't necessarily mean being strong all the time.

Kylie Bunbury

TimeMeStrongMeanAlwaysBeing

I think if a person plays 'Quantum Conundrum' and they walk away feeling really intelligent and skilled, that's what I want. That's my only goal.

Kim Swift

WalkThinkFeelingGoalPersonWant

The Orwellian vision was about state-sponsored surveillance. Now it's not just the state, it's your nosy neighbor, your ex-spouse and people who want to spam you.

Howard Rheingold

VisionPeopleYouNeighborNowWant

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