Wendy Kopp Quotes

I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.

Wendy Kopp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

Andrew Mason

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I think we live in a world where the most important thing is daily life: sharing a space with your family, making meals, being with your people. It's not only the idea of privacy, it's the beauty of the moment, at a time in the world when everything goes really fast - too fast.

Ana Tijoux

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Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.

Ronald Kessler

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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Michel de Montaigne

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I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

Michelle Bachelet

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Being a teenager is complicated.

Janet Varney

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I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.

Donatella Versace

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If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.

Chris Isaak

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No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.

Connie Mack

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It seems that everywhere I go, people want the same things - security, education, family. It's just that so many people have no avenues through which to obtain these things.

Brandon Stanton

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Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

Antony Garrett Lisi

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When I was young, I ate Ho Hos every day.

Anne Wojcicki

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