Jonathan Kozol Quotes

I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge but also entice the reader into the lives of children.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

Joe Mantegna

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Everyone knows that a federal job is a lifetime job, and for many in Congress, it seems they have a lifetime job, too.

John McAfee

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Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

Michael Gove

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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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I hate writing. There are a million other things I'd rather be doing. I write because I have to. Because if I feel so strongly about what is happening to animals, and I don't do anything to help them, who will?

Rory Freedman

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You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

Robert Wise

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It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.

Mitt Romney

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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

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'Station to Station' is a series of happenings that go across the landscape. What is a happening? A happening is a moment in time. A moment in time that is not choreographed, where you don't know precisely what's going on. Where there are aspects of different layers of culture.

Doug Aitken

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And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other.

Delta Burke

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I painted sets before I ever performed.

Christopher Guest

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I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance.

Bobby Lee

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