Wendy Kopp Quotes

Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.

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• When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Done
  • Meetings

• In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Heart
  • Business
  • True

• The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Good
  • Change
  • Sun

• If you've got information about an opponent running against you, wouldn't you want that information - to vet it, to see if it's real information, and to use it accordingly?

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Real
  • Want
  • You

• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Water
  • Always
  • Drink

• Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Real
  • Internet

• I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Person
  • Above

• I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Dance
  • Thought

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Country
  • Afghanistan

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common

• What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Future
  • Woman
  • Hell

• In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • You
  • Phone
  • Phone Call

• Never put a sock in a toaster.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Sock

• You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Important
  • Health
  • Sports

• As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Why
  • Black
  • Change

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mean
  • Traditions
  • Cultural

• Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Ends
  • Revolutionary
  • Heretic

• Although I was quiet as a child, I had this resistless passion inside of me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

  

  Masiela Lusha
  • World
  • Words
  • Passion

• The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I knew, to kill me, violent enough to break me apart. The waves were immense, battering rocky beaches without sand. The farther I went, the more desolate it became, more than any place I'd been, but for this very reason the landscape drew me, claimed me as nothing had in a long time.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Different
  • Long
  • Black

• Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Long
  • Change
  • Effort