Derek Bok Quotes

I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.

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• When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Team
  • Breakfast
  • Habits

• I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Crazy

• People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Logical

• When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • School
  • Home
  • Friends

• The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Sense
  • Scene
  • Crowd

• When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Money
  • Think
  • Debt

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• A closed mind is a dying mind.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Mind
  • Dying
  • Closed

• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• I think we've shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I've directed a couple shows on that set and believe me, it's impossible not to duplicate some camera angles.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Think

• My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Me
  • Myself

• When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Experience
  • You
  • Place

• If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Life
  • Important
  • Secrets

• I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Language

• People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Government
  • Politics

• We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Women
  • Game
  • Old

• A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Years
  • Said
  • Being

• It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.

  

  John Battelle
  • Culture

• The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Work
  • Done

• I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research that does show that there are real advantages to your subsequent career in going to selective institutions.

  

  Derek Bok
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  • Career
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