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 had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.
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I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different.
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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.
