Derek Bok Quotes
I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate an enormous diversity of students. I think all of those institutions have to define particular roles for themselves; they can't do everything at once.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
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I get so many different types of people emailing me how much my story impacts them. Hearing that inspires me every day to keep going and going.
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Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.
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I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.
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I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate an enormous diversity of students. I think all of those institutions have to define particular roles for themselves; they can't do everything at once.
