Wendy Kopp Quotes
When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.
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I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.
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I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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My mother had me when she was 16, and that was an issue that had to be dealt with. She grew up in a very religious background, and there was a lot of discussion of what they should do with this unborn child. But here I am, and thank goodness.
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When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
