Derek Bok Quotes
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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.
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I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.
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Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
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As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress for meaningful immigration reform.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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Manmohan Singh is a wise, wonderful man.
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You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.
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For the record,'You'll Always Be a Part Of Me' no matter what you do,For the record,can't nobody say I didn't give 'My All' to you,For the record,I told you 'Underneath The Stars' that you 'Belong' to me,For the record,It's obvious that we just 'Can't Let Go' of us 'Honey'.
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To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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There's no sinner like a young saint.
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It was terribly difficult. It's not something I ever wanted in my life. Naively I just thought, 'oh I've got this great part'. I never thought about the reality of all the stuff that went with it. I'm actually quite a shy person when I'm not on stage.
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I've always been a big fan of Nashville, and I have friends that live there.
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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
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Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.
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I try to look in the future and think backwards. That is when I am at my most comfortable. Because then I am just like the movie, 'Back to the Future.'
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I look so fondly back on that time in my life when you first got an agent and you were in your mid-twenties and the world was your oyster.
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My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.
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If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.
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Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.
