Wendy Kopp Quotes
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Mike Pence doesn't stand for anything that I really believe in.
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I am going to retire, and it is going to be a permanent retirement.
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Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such as running around telling the story. [As the protagonist] you push the story whereas, paradoxically, as a character part, you have a chance to explore some of the nuance and some of the more complicated aspects of a character.
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School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.
