Wendy Kopp Quotes

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

Wendy Kopp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EducationChangeHopeBestDay

I'm interested in people that can say one thing and have completely different motives behind that.

Jesse Plemons

PeopleSayDifferentOne ThingThing

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

Jennifer Damiano

AgeStyleFeelTryingFindYoung

The best songs/films/collections expose truths about life and make them universally accessible; they progress humanity.

Andreja Pejic

LifeBestProgressHumanityExpose

We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control.

Michael Connelly

ControlOrderSeeking

Some commercials can work against your image.

Amruta Khanvilkar

WorkImageAgainstYourSome

I went from being able to walk down the street and be ignored to having men whistle at me. I was an insecure young girl, and it felt good to have attention, even though it was inappropriate.

Amanda de Cadenet

GoodGirlWalkMenMeAttention

I'm light-skinned. I'm mixed with black and white.

Trae Young

Black And WhiteBlackWhiteMixed

There's so many ways of making product design easier, more efficient, quicker. People are now taking DNA from cows and growing leather. The implications of that, in what it has from a grain standpoint, are enormous.

Tory Burch

PeopleDesignGrowingNowDNAMore

For the American culture to evolve and include Asians is so amazing.

Mirai Nagasu

CultureAmazingAmericanEvolve

This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.

Lukas Haas

TimeMeWorldActionThinkCareer

I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.

Jay Roach

GreatThinkKeepGreat ThingPushing

Sometimes I get gigs in weird, artsy places because weird, artsy people embraced my public-access show, which I could only have done in the way I did in New York.

Chris Gethard

New YorkPeopleWeirdNewSometimes

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