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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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I was definitely very much a country boy.
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I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.
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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.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
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There is nothin' like a dame.
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Some big actresses told me a few things that inspired me. One said that the biggest challenge for a female actress was to make sure they are not profoundly bored. Another told me to just do whatever you want - do anything.
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Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.
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Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.
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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.
