Jonathan Kozol Quotes

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.

Jessie J

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Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.

Jo Brand

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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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I decided to go to the London School of Economics to write my thesis for MIT, under James Meade, Nobelist with Bertil Ohlin in 1977.

Robert Mundell

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When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime.

Anand Gopal

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You can give to Americans for Prosperity or something else - a variety of different ways to push back against the party of government.

Mitch McConnell

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The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Lord Hailsham

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I would buy Barbies and take them apart and then remake their looks. I used them for hairstyling. It was a whole process. I had a lot of dolls - like 150.

Jason Wu

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I just don't know when, as a society... it sort of only became OK to represent gay people in the traditional sense, where they have a great job and well-adjusted parents and maybe a surrogate or adopted child. When was that the only way you could represent gay people?

Jordan Gavaris

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To go to the Oscars for Moneyball - that was pretty amazing. And to be able to go work with Kathryn Bigelow - that's going to be pretty sweet. Hopefully I don't have to go back to being a waiter. That's still my main goal.

Chris Pratt

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When you stand your ground, and you are attacked by liberals and attacked by the press, that is going to earn you the respect of voters.

Corey Stewart

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We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.

Bret Stephens

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