Derek Bok Quotes
I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.
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Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling about and think it would be nice to be one of them.
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I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.
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For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I'm wearing. Being on the road all the time, it's various articles of clothing that keep me inspired and feeling good. A fun or beautiful thing to wear can change your day. I think spontaneity and not adhering to any narrow styles keep me happy.
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After Year 12, I went to Vancouver for my gap year and met an agent who told me to lose 25 kg.
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I've been around some really good guys from different teams.
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For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot - legends - and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.
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Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
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If we set our priority 'the removal of all risk', we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
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There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.
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I have a dream where society will replace guns with dictionaries.
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I have often thought that one of the less attractive traits of various professional bodies and institutions is the deeply ingrained suspicion and outright hostility which can exist towards anything unorthodox or unconventional.
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New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.
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With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.
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You can't do business without money, of course, because that's how it works, but I'm not in business only for money.
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I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.
