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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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.
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I used to think that deadlines should be ignored until the product was ready: that they were a nuisance, a hurdle in front of quality, a forced measure to get something out the door for the good of the schedule, not the customer.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.
