Wendy Kopp Quotes

As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.

Wendy Kopp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 29, 1967

Topics

OpportunityMeWorldYouBornPlace

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

John Fowles

WorldCreateWhyWriteNeedCommon

There are times when you're working with film people when you have to say, 'If the camera were on you, what you're doing would be perfect'.

Anna D. Shapiro

PeopleDoingCameraYouPerfectSay

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

Sidney Poitier

HopelessnessRacialEthnicDomination

Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.

Rob McKenna

PositiveRelationshipManagementWay

I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.

Chris Ware

RespectMedicalThinkBe NiceNice

A lot of times we look at the past as something that was really great, but we ignore things that have actually gotten better since then.

Cliff Chiang

GreatPastBetterIgnoreLookSince

To restore our public schools, we must put an end to the selfish agenda of the union bosses.

Bruce Rauner

SelfishEndRestoreMustUnionOur

If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

Bruno Tonioli

HappyBe HappyPlacePaintWhere

So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it.

Sherwood Boehlert

GovernmentEfficiencyWayEconomy

That's what PGA Tour golf is all about. It's a partnership with the community to help people to raise money for charity and to do it using golf as a platform.

Tim Finchem

CommunityMoneyPeopleCharityHelp

It's funny to be a critic.

Leslie Fiedler

FunnyCritic

I don't believe the federal government should be snooping into American citizens' cell phones without a warrant issued by a federal judge. You cannot give the federal government extraordinary powers to eavesdrop without a warrant. It's simply un-American.

Kevin de Leon

GovernmentBelieveAmericanJudge

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