Wendy Kopp Quotes
I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.
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My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
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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 was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth.
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After the global financial crisis of 2008, populist uprisings had sprouted across Europe. Putin and his strategists sensed the beginnings of a larger uprising that could upend the Continent and make life uncomfortable for his geostrategic competitors.
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I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.
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My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.
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Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.
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I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.
