Wendy Kopp Quotes
I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.
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A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
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Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
