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.Wendy Kopp
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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.
Rachel Sklar -
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.
Imogen Heap -
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.
Jacob deGrom -
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.
Daley Thompson -
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?
Queen Latifah -
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.
Patricia Hewitt
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
Candice Olson -
'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
Sabrina Bryan -
Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
Warren Zevon -
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.
Pamela Meyer -
The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
Eddie Trunk -
'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
Taylor Hicks
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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.
Cai Guo-Qiang -
I think music sharing of any kind is great.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
Damien Chazelle -
Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
Zoe Saldana -
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.
Nat Friedman -
What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
Taylor Swift
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I can't imagine finding success and then moving to a building in Manhattan with 300 strangers, like a bunch of little ants going home at night.
Alan Gerry -
I was interested in Prozac from a personal point of view because I can be a bit moody - things do get on top of me sometimes - so I was quite keen to find out what it would do to my personality.
Bernard Sumner Joy Division -
My best friends are women in the Senate, but much like Senator Obama, I ran on a platform of change.
Amy Klobuchar -
So many entrepreneurs view their companies as their babies. They micromanage, and they stall.
Kirsten Green -
The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.
Napoleon Hill -
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
Wendy Kopp