Wendy Kopp Quotes

Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.

Wendy Kopp

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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

Laura Haddock
- School
- Day
- Positive
The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

Gaby Hoffmann
- Reform
- Finance
- Biggest
In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

Rafael Nadal
- Winning
- Moment
- Luck
You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.

J. Smith-Cameron
- Music
- Country
- True
I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

Orlando Bloom
- Think
- Environment
- Easy
I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.

Tamara Tunie
- Food
- Rest
- Football