Derek Bok Quotes
The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.
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I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.
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A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.
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Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.
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I have severe ADD, and I'm constantly looking to amuse myself.
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The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.
