Wendy Kopp Quotes
If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.
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I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
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Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.
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While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
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My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
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Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.
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I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.
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I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.
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Government tends to believe in top-down solutions, and government fears of bottom-up solutions.
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Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.
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Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can't be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.
