Wendy Kopp Quotes

Competition and competitive rhetoric can be healthy. It's what drove the United States to pursue the Soviet Union into space, creating countless innovations along the way.

Wendy Kopp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CompetitionSpaceCreatingHealthy

Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.

Jesse Williams

PeopleSameBlackness

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

John Ensign

CommunityBuildingBelieveVoting

I'm not trying to represent all Muslim women. I'm trying to give voice to the silent majority. Unfortunately, I'm a bit loony.

Maysoon Zayid

WomenVoiceTryingSilentGiveBit

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.

Robert Gottlieb

YourselfBookYouSometimesKind

The first person a customer speaks with has the greatest impact on that customer's impression of Safeway.

Steven Burd

ImpactCustomerPersonFirstSpeaks

It gives me satisfaction to help people.

Stewart Udall

PeopleMeHelpSatisfactionGives

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

Roberto Cavalli

MusicFamousSpecialReasonBecause

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.

Ron Finley

FearLiveChildrenFightCriticism

I've never seen Kendrick Lamar crack a joke, and I've met him, but I'm sure he's hilarious, too, just because he's so good at rapping. J. Cole is a funny guy as well. Drake is funny. But who's the funniest guy I've met who is a rapper? I would say 50 Cent.

Jay Pharoah

FunnyGoodJust BecauseSayNever

The feeling I had several times in youth, when lying in a field staring up at the night sky, that I might fall into the infinite void - for people like me, this idea mostly provokes anxiety.

Claire Messud

SkyPeopleMeYouthNightAnxiety

For me, speaking my mind is a big part of my life, and I encourage other people to do that as well.

Anne-Marie

LifePeopleMindMeMy LifeBig

The effect of robotization would be profoundly different if, say, truckers possessed their own autonomous vehicles rather than a corporation controlling them all.

Alissa Quart

SayOwnDifferentAutonomousWould

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