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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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it.
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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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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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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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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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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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I put myself through college.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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Anna Katherine Green wrote about a female inquiry agent, and there were a scattering of female investigators in the 1970s, authored by men, who just didn't ring true. So I thought, 'Well, there's an opening here for something.'
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Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.
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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.
