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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My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
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The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.
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But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information.
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I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.
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If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.
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I think I'm a different kind of role model for young girls.
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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.
