Wendy Kopp Quotes
Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I'm confident in our resolve to make the decisions necessary to keep our country and our people safe and prosperous and I look forward to representing the citizens of Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District for the next two years.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
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I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own.
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The unformulated message of an assembly of news items from every quarter of the globe is that the world today is one city. All war is civil war. All suffering is our own.
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Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs.
