Derek Bok Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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This town was built on nepotism.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
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There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: 'Aha! It was because he didn't share. It was the spirits who brought him down.'
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I started in theater. I did theater professionally for seven years with my company before I started doing 'Friends.' I was waiting tables and doing theater.
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.
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When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.
