Derek Bok Quotes
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
-
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
-
There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
-
When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.
-
As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
-
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
-
A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
-
This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
-
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
-
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
-
I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
-
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
-
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
-
Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
-
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
-
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
-
Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
-
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
-
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
-
I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.
-
I have an opportunity now with some of the projects I've done, i.e. the North Pole and the South Pole, to speak to a larger audience and talk about things that have nothing to do with physical education or special ed.
-
Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools
-
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
