Wendy Kopp Quotes

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

Wendy Kopp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

Joan Lingard

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I'm not for every woman, you know. Because a lot of women - I mean, obviously, your first thing is, 'What do you want your guy to look like?' And I'm not the tall, dark, handsome guy.

Joel Madden

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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

John Dryden

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I don't like gross monetary inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.

Michael Dirda

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Jill Eisenstadt's comic second novel, 'Kiss Out,' is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.

Stephen McCauley

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Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do.

Robin Marantz Henig

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I promise you that when the circumstances arise where I have a difference on policy or on presentation, I have - I can tell you in my heart, I know - I would have no hesitation, were I privileged to be vice president, to walk into the president's office, close the door, and share my heart.

Mike Pence

HeartWalkDoorYouI CanKnow

You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.

Michael K. Powell

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I want to do everything. That's my problem. Life is short, and I hate the idea of turning down anything. You never know what interesting experience might happen.

Joshua Bell

LifeHateExperienceLife Is Short

Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.

Debbie Ford

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I think God gave every one of us a cell phone, we just dropped it.

Sylvia Browne

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I miss America because it's where I grew up. I miss the size of the roads, the size of cars, the malls, the choices of radio.

Suzi Quatro

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