Derek Bok Quotes
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot -
The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
Jackie Robinson -
I'm not the type of person that is forced.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
America is not the center of the universe.
Felix Dennis -
I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
Jack Lew -
You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
Faye Dunaway
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
Sam Donaldson -
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
Karl Malone -
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
J. Paul Getty -
Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
Wayne Dyer -
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
Wally Lamb -
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
Patrick Duffy -
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
Karen Kingsbury -
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando -
Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
Patrick Ewing -
When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!
Gary Lineker -
I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
Bebe Neuwirth
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Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.
Annette Funicello -
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
Karen Horney -
There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.
Mary Steenburgen -
We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.
Adriana Trigiani -
I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.
Derek Bok