Wendy Kopp Quotes
There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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But i was young, and i got so cross. in the early days we made up easily. had fun making up, in fact.
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I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.
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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
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Having a team that I trust is, for me, really important.
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There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case.
