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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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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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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The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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You don't disrupt genius at work.
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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.