Wendy Kopp Quotes
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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I think music sharing of any kind is great.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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I believe we need to lay race theories to rest: Democracy - and identity - is difficult enough without 'scientific' obfuscation.
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What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.
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At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.
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Choupette literally has the finest tuna, the finest of everything a cat could ever have.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.