Jonathan Kozol Quotes

'Savage Inequalities' was about school finance, and 'Amazing Grace' primarily dealt with medical and social injustices in New York. But with 'Ordinary Resurrections,' I had no predetermined agenda. When I met with the children, I was not in pursuit of any line of thinking. In our conversations, I let them lead me where they wanted to go.

Jonathan Kozol

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenFinanceMedicalSchoolMe

I'm from the old school; hard work pays off.

John David Washington

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As a writer, I live in the world of literature and ideas, but I entered that world as an emigre from a medieval fiefdom, the sports world of Michigan.

Max Apple

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You know, Taylor Lautner, with a body like that, he should be taking his shirt off. For me, it's not so essential.

Max Irons

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It's good to establish moves that fans are always going to recognize and scream for.

Jeff Hardy

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Everything gleamed or glinted on TV in the '70s, from the 'flavor crystals' in Folgers coffee to the yellow dentures dipped in Polident and instantly restored to pristine, piano-key whiteness.

Steve Rushin

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American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Tom Hooper

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I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.

Ross Mathews

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People can be successful for a short period of time, but only a handful of people are successful for decades.

Michelle Wolf

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I always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It's always mysterious.

Denis Villeneuve

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If I want to hand one of my old shotguns that I've had for 50 years to my grandkid one day, I have to go through a federal transfer? It's crazy.

Donald Trump, Jr.

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In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.

Chris O'Donnell

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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

Constantin Stanislavski

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