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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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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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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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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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.
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In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
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She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again. Eyes changed after they looked at new things. If in the years to be she were to come back, her new eyes might make everything seem different from the way she saw it now. The way it was now was the way she wanted to remember it.
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When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.
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I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
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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.
