Derek Bok Quotes

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

Derek Bok

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• I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Romantic
  • Wonderful
  • Bike

• Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Long
  • Character
  • Comedy

• There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Made
  • Use
  • Riches

• I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Up
  • Think
  • High

• That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with one thing in your life, 500 others rear their head.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Life
  • Up
  • Pretty

• I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Gullible

• Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Thought
  • Now
  • Independence

• My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Different
  • Home
  • Situation

• The greatest enjoyment possible to man was that which this philosophy promises its votaries-the pleasure of being always right, and always reasoning-without ever being bound to look at anything.

  

  Walter Bagehot

• Here once, through an alley Titanic,Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul - Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Titanic

• So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Fear

• Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Fear
  • Violence

• I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • God
  • Believe

• Having my law the seventh time disobey'd,I struck him, and dismiss'dWith hard words and unkiss'd,-His Mother, who was patient, being dead.

  

  Coventry Patmore
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Words

• In the beginning, there is just universe. There is no us. There is just God in His or Her universe. Then we separate God from the universe until we are trapped in it, in the universe we have created.

  

  Alan Moore
  • God
  • Universe
  • Beginning

• I'm a late-night host that doesn't want to be tied down by time or television or even hosting.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Time
  • Night

• There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • People
  • American
  • Happy

• Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • Joy

• The real struggle between an American government and the people was one of power, which was settled when they designed their Constitution, which conceded the sovereignty of the people when it came to politics, and the sovereignty of the consumer when it came to economics.

  

  Ndabaningi Sithole
  • People
  • Power
  • Government

• I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'

  

  FKA twigs
  • Remember
  • Soul
  • Feeling

• There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or flashlight. A thing as simple as naming it allows us to root it out of the darkness and hushed conversation where it likes to breed like roaches. It makes us acknowledge it. Confront it.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Power
  • Light
  • Simple

• I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Training
  • Boys
  • Manual

• Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

  

  Derek Bok