Wendy Kopp Quotes
Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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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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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals.
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Emissions of greenhouse gases warm the planet, altering the carbon and water cycles. A warmer ocean stores more heat, providing more fuel for hurricanes. A warmer atmosphere holds more water, bringing dangerous deluges. Rising sea levels threaten coastal zones.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.
