Wendy Kopp Quotes
It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
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I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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That's just the way this business works. You're a reliable commodity.
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They want to wipe - in fact, the Democrat Party in their own platform last year wiped even - any reference to God completely from their platform.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.