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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Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves.
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The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It divides it up and looks at parts in isolation.
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
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I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.
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I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.'
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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.
