Jonathan Kozol Quotes

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Back in the year 2000, most of the Internet companies were not making any money.

Masayoshi Son

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I wanted a garret hideaway to write in like Jo March in 'Little Women.'

Mary Kay Andrews

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Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Mike Tyson

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Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

Dennis Farina

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If you at any point forget that Wookiees aren't real, it's time to come up for air.

Claudia Gray

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Aristotle

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Older people generally appreciate live music.

Syd

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This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas - because they simply don't know about its existence or they don't know how it operates.

Peter York

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I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.

Peter Landesman

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Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

Paul Tillich

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I am who I am. I was never 'in,' as they say. Never.

Sean Hayes

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I'm a lover of cinema, and I don't want that to completely expire.

Todd Haynes

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