Wendy Kopp Quotes
It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.
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For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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We've always had anti-Muslim bigots, but they've always been at the fringes of society.
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I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist or a fashion designer. I wanted to be something that allowed for a lot of imagination.
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My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest.
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Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.
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The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.
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It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should.
