Wendy Kopp Quotes

All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.

Wendy Kopp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TechnologyOpportunityChildrenLaw

After a year of post-graduate research, I won an 1851 Exhibition scholarship to work at Oxford with Robert Robinson. Two such scholarships were awarded each year, and the other was won by Rita Harradence, also of Sydney and also an organic chemist.

John Cornforth

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It drove me crazy, Scotland. It was cold. It was abuse. It was snowing and everything. I was so cold that one day I faked an injury to go to the locker room.

Riyad Mahrez

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Any mistakes that I make is an investment in my future.

Rose Namajunas

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People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

Ross Kemp

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Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There's a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species.

Michele Bachmann

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I'll basically eat anything that a chef puts in front of me. One of the reasons is respect for the chef. I watch chefs eat at other chefs' restaurants, and they're very aware not to leave anything over because the chef is watching very closely. It's a very sincere interaction when two chefs are cooking for one another.

Jon Favreau

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My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Dirk Benedict

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'Liv and Maddie' actually started out as a different show called 'Bits and Pieces,' and it was a completely different plot, although it was the same cast.

Dove Cameron

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I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

Dee Dee Myers

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You don't realize that somebody who's average or even very fit could relate to someone who's overweight, but it's not about our size - it's how we look at ourselves and how we feel about ourselves.

Chrissy Metz

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Government pensions are among the largest cost drivers for state and local governments.

Bruce Rauner

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I never wanted to be home-schooled. I didn't like the idea of being home-schooled.

Asa Butterfield

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