Wendy Kopp Quotes

We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.

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• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
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• I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

  

  Kate Thompson
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• I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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• I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

  

  Ed Koch
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• Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

  

  Kaki King
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• I think, at the end of the day, you have to reduce friction to businesses, ideally to zero, so that more and more entrepreneurs can create more and more jobs with higher and higher disposable income.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
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• I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.

  

  B. D. Wong
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• While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
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• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

  

  Wally Lamb
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• I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

  

  Lamar Alexander
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• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

  

  R. T. Rybak
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• A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
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• I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
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• Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.

  

  Zach Gilford
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• In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
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• The Chancellor has delivered his first budget but it's the same old Tories; hitting hardest at those who can least afford it and breaking their promises. This is true to form for the Tories, but it includes things that the Liberal Democrats have always fought against. Surely they cannot vote for this.

  

  Harriet Harman
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• I think that size is not the key to innovation. Scale doesn't confirm an innovation advantage.

  

  Kenneth Frazier
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• There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

  

  Zephyr Teachout
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• We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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