Derek Bok Quotes
There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
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Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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One thing I've learned, and I don't really blame anybody for this: most people who have a lot of money are the people that want to make money more than anyone. I've seen it with athletes, I've seen it with musicians, you know?
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
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God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
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I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for 18 months. I don't like to interrupt her.
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I had stage fright for years and years, and I could hear it in my singing. But since I've done it so often for so many years, you'd think that I'd relax a little bit, and I think that I have.
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There was a whole slew of 'Cops and Robbersons,' just films that didn't measure up, that didn't stand for anything comedically. They were purely for a paycheck.
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Definitely, there's a lot of strength in depth in my division.
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There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
