Wendy Kopp Quotes
It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
Wendy Kopp
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace Stevens
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What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
Barack Obama
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
Karan Singh Grover
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
Sachin Tendulkar
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
Iris Apfel
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
Abbey Clancy
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In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.
P. T. Barnum
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Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor - all segments of the city.
Walter Washington
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All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. The rock bands are rather drab, even the good ones. You definitely don't want to look at them. But some of those R&B people are very good.
Bryan Ferry
Roxy Music
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
Jack Horner
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I hid my love when young till ICouldn't bear the buzzing of a fly;I hid my love to my despiteTill I could not bear to look at light:I dare not gaze upon her faceBut left her memory in each place;Where eer I saw a wild flower lieI kissed and bade my love good bye.
John Clare
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
Wendy Kopp