Wendy Kopp Quotes
If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
Quotes to Explore
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
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My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.
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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father had already found his place, but for us, for my mother, it was very difficult to get our bearings.
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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I found a belief system that worked for me, and I said, you know what, 'I actually do want to give being with men another chance.'
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Part of the game of investing is to come into your own. You must find some way that perfectly fits your personality because there is some element of a zero sum game in investing. If you buy, somebody else has to sell. And when you sell, somebody has to buy. You can't both be right.
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We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.
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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same.
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If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
