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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I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.
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This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.
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At the end of the day, 'Shuffle Along' is about people coming together and making something extraordinary - and history not necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of doing, regardless of the consequences.
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I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.
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The office-as-playground trend was made famous by Google and has spread like an infection across the tech industry. Work can't just be work; work has to be fun.
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Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.
