Wendy Kopp Quotes

When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!

Wendy Kopp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeChangeHomeChange The World

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

Jim Barksdale

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My Judaism has always been a great pride with me.

Jerry Lewis

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I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

Jeremy Northam

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I think that there have been a lot of fear-based assertions that feminism is about aggression, and that is incorrect and untrue. Feminism is about equality; that's what it's about.

Jenny Slate

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A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Maya Angelou

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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.

Maya Angelou

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The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

Robert Littell

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Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

Matthew Simpson

GodPastManKnowWantsForgiven

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Tony Buzan

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I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd disappeared into the wings of his mind's stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line.

Ron Reagan

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Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

Ruth Ozeki

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Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

Mason Cooley

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