Wendy Kopp Quotes
It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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In college, I didn't perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. Then I realized, 'Oh, there are people who can focus on comedy and especially improvisational comedy and make a career out of it.'
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.
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Many of my friends are scientists.
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I just wanted to play my guitar.
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It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
