Wendy Kopp Quotes

You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.

Wendy Kopp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HistoryDayPeopleMake A Difference

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.

Joe Pantoliano

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Democracy relies on free speech. Yes, say anything you want, but it relies even more on the speech being truthful. It is the truth, after all, that sets us free.

John F. Kerry

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So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time.

Andrew McCarthy

TimeExperienceMeYoungAlways

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

John Hodgman

Real EstateMediaWantRealOwn

Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better.

Stefon Diggs

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The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

Steven Biko

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I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

Michael Ondaatje

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I think isolationism is a mistake, no matter what party you see it in. We have to remember that there are two threats to our freedom: there's a threat that comes from the federal government, from the Obama Administration policies... but there's also a huge and significant threat from al-Qaeda.

Liz Cheney

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I think it's frightening for all of us to contemplate that there's more to the universe than just us, in whatever form it takes, that there are higher forces at work, and to me, that's always a scary notion.

Jason Blum

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I'm really excited to share cabaret, the art form, not just with the generations that are above me, but also my generation and the generation under me. I think it's an art form that's incredibly important, and I think that my generation is a little unfamiliar with it.

Annaleigh Ashford

ArtMeThinkGenerationImportant

For me, I want to find the truth in the word and the character and the line.

Phyllis Smith

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