Wendy Kopp Quotes
It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.
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Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
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One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
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It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
