Tom Joyner quotes

Tom Joyner quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration.”
-- Tom Joyner

#Summer Quotes #School Quotes #Naacp Quotes

“I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.”
“When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...”

Source : Aimee Friedman (2012). “Ocean of Secrets”, p.148, Scholastic UK
“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.”
“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.
“From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press
“Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.”
“Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing”
“I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.”

Source : "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Aaron Tveit". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. July 24, 2010.
“Never again will NAACP find itself near financial ruin.”

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