Wendy Kopp Quotes

I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.

Wendy Kopp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The only way you can get to know each other is by hanging out.

Jessica White

YouKnowWayOutHangingGet

I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work.

Jessica Simpson

WorkWomanNeverGoingWho

I've always been pathologically skinny.

Jeremy Davies

AlwaysSkinnyBeen

At least once a year, I meet with a group called the Giving Pledge. It's a group of billionaires - including me, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Ted Turner - who have pledged to give away most of their money to charity. We meet for three days to talk about what we're doing to help make the planet a better place to live.

John Paul DeJoria

LiveMoneyMeCharityBetterHelp

Typically, there's about 20, 25 percent turnover every year. So, every three or four years with the exception of, as is the case with the Patriots and the quarterback, you have a roster turnover.

Jeff Fisher

YearYouThreeYearsQuarterback

Back when we started this at the tail end of 'Eye of the North,' Ree Soesbee and I worked out 250 years of timeline between the end of 'Eye of the North' and the beginning of 'Guild Wars 2.'

Jeff Grubb

BeginningEyeEndBackYearsOut

Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

Shiv Khera

GoalsPeopleEndThreeUpWorking

I always want to work.

Mary McCormack

WorkWantAlways

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

DemocracyEndDecisionsPolitical

Give to yourself as much as you give of yourself! This means you have to put yourself first.

Suze Orman

YourselfYouFirstGiveMeansMuch

I shoot my big mouth off; it just pops up! I have to learn to edit myself.

Marianne Faithfull

MyselfLearnMouthUpShootBig

'The Five' is so special is because we all have such diverse backgrounds. It's such a nice mix of men, of women, and the variety of where we come from, different walks of life, different occupations, and certainly different viewpoints. That's what makes it so unique.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

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