Wendy Kopp Quotes

Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

Wendy Kopp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

Jerry Garcia

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I'd never written a song before 'The Blood'; I didn't know it was going to be a song.

Andrae Crouch

SongKnowBloodNeverGoingBefore

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

Matthew Nable

GreatYourselfMeSomeoneComfort

Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.

Andy Weir

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People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it's really more like Vegas.

Tucker Carlson

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I increasingly wonder whether most humans are in a constant state of unconsciously fearing each other. Perhaps they fear how intimately different other people might be to them, and the problem is that there is no real way of finding out just how huge that difference might be.

Michael Leunig

FearPeopleProblemFindingWonder

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

Drew Carey

LosingPlayPokerLikePot

We have become bound by a political straitjacket that frames every debate: Too much federal government. Yet our forefathers forged this system for us. The federal government can accomplish what the states, acting alone or even in concert, cannot.

Donna Brazile

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When we design for non-Latin, we always aim to create a rhythm and texture that is sympathetic so when you have the two scripts running side by side, they create, ideally, the same tonal value on the page.

Bruno Maag

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I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

William Jackson

TodayChildrenMeTelevisionUp

I don't belong to any social network, and I don't even message much. In fact, most of the time, I don't even use my mobile phone.

Nithya Menen

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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

Marianne Faithfull

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