Wendy Kopp Quotes
Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equally interested in short-term results.
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When you audition for 'Quantico,' they have the academy application manual and maps of the base in the waiting room. So right from the start, they have you doing research, which I thought was cool.
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Just being at home, growing up naturally, and being here now with my video and my music, I think people realize that I was in the Spice Girls 8 years ago.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
