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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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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If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland - and you put on a Russian uniform - you are not a patriotic person.
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You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
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I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.
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Me fail english? Thats unpossible.
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Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.
