Wendy Kopp Quotes
We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.
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This is what we get paid to do, is to bring it every week, and I hope the guys would say I bring it every week. I mean, I love this game, and I bring energy.
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.
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Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
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If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.
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I loved my start. I'm proud of my spots. I don't feel embarrassed by anything that I did... It definitely helped me more than hurt me.
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
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It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.
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All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
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I was elected to the Senate in 2010 by people worried about our country, worried about our kids and their future.
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My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.
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I'm a very proud Australian, always bragging about our country wherever I am in the world.
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Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.
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Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!
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The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost.
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We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.
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We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.
