Wendy Kopp Quotes

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

Wendy Kopp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.

Jim Harrison

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What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

Joe Klein

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The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.

Andrew Lo

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I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

Robert Smith

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Go back to the very beginning, when we first started playing in local pubs. We used to play Chuck Berry covers. Every now and then, we'd slip in one of our own songs, and we found that we were getting away with it - nobody seemed to know these were original tracks.

Angus Young

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Existence precedes and rules essence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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We need to get young people excited about politics, excited about government.

Jeanne Shaheen

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I remember girls watching it in high school, and I thought the basketball part of the show was cool. And lo and behold, a few years later, I found myself in 'Tree Hill' land.

Stephen Colletti

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The farther away you writers stay, the better I like it. You know why? Because you're trying to create a bad image of me... you do it because I'm black and Puerto Rican, but I'm proud to be Puerto Rican.

Roberto Clemente

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The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.

Michael Schumacher

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I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.

Joyce Meyer

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Whatever you do, don't take shortcuts. It's great advice to take and live by.

Dick Dale

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