Wendy Kopp Quotes
Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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And you're not happy but you're funny and I'm tripping over my joy. I just keep on gettin up again.
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We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced in dollars. Central banks in other countries hold great quantities of dollars. The dollar was the safe harbor, the port in the storm during the credit crisis.
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I still keep my accent.
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
