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.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • World
  • Long
  • Science

• I want to continue to be me and share with people.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Been
  • Little
  • Little Bit

• It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • May
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Want
  • Place
  • Lady

• 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.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Bad
  • You
  • Count

• 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.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Want
  • Passion
  • Creative

• 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.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Know
  • Famous

• A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Never
  • Big
  • Winner

• I've always been extremely physically active.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Always
  • Been
  • Active

• 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.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • People
  • Job
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  W. Richard Stevens
  • Country
  • Job
  • Cold

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Voice

• Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Life
  • Hell

• Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Human

• The state of our state needs serious attention.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • Attention
  • Serious
  • Needs

• I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Play

• I don't get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because naked shape is a different kind of shape than just regular TV shape. Regular, having-your-clothes-on TV shape is intense, but naked TV shape is, I mean, you really have to watch what you eat.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Good
  • Different
  • Sick

• I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.

  

  Eike Batista
  • Work
  • Great
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Think
  • Teach