Jonathan Kozol Quotes

There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

InnovationProgressSchoolPeople

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

Joan Collins

YouRulesKnowActorNeverBeing

I was popular, and I enjoyed that, and my mother kept telling me I better take typing so I'd have something to fall back on. I didn't know what the future held, but once I got my law degree, I started to feel like, 'OK, I'm a serious person.'

Megyn Kelly

MotherFutureMeLawBetterFeel

The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.

Shirley Manson

GoodVoiceLearnEnoughPowerful

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

Mary Harris Jones

FightWhateverYourLadylike

When we're on the football field, it's me vs. him. Maybe it's me vs. two of them. Maybe it's me vs. three of them. It's a fight. And you have to take that fighter's mentality out there.

Mike Daniels

FootballFightMeYouThreeFighter

If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.

Deanna Raybourn

RomanticFashionStoryMysteryYou

I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.

Debi Gliori

AttitudeHeroMeVillainBookWolf

I feel like a lot of performers' worst shows happened in Philly. There's something about that town.

Chris Gethard

FeelWorstSomethingLikeHappened

Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

Conan O'Brien

LoveDreamsPeopleRegretWayShow

On the musical side, I always wanted to kind of carry on Pink Floyd's sound. You know, Pink Floyd always had such an original, creative and masterful sound, but there are no new albums. My thought was that there's a way to keep their sound alive.

Corey Feldman

CreativePinkThoughtYouAliveNew

Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.

Alice Ripley

WritingTheatreYouI CanPlaceGet

Justin Timberlake has a great live show.

Syd

LiveGreatShowJustin Timberlake

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