Wendy Kopp Quotes
You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.
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I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of course meant more masks and dancing … I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job.
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I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
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My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
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We imagine that some people will jump into the AR and VR space that are complementary. We look at Google Glass. It's very complementary. It's not competitive. It's a different experience. It's used for different purposes.
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You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.
