Wendy Kopp Quotes
As a white woman with a privileged education, I'm keenly aware that I founded an organization that can only realize its goal if it enlists many more leaders who share the backgrounds of the students and families we work with.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.
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The cold is a good counselor, but it is cold.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I started out wanting to be an actress. My sister was in this theater company in Brooklyn. I saw her in some plays, and I was immediately obsessed. I started auditioning for plays when I was about 10.
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With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.
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As a white woman with a privileged education, I'm keenly aware that I founded an organization that can only realize its goal if it enlists many more leaders who share the backgrounds of the students and families we work with.
