Derek Bok Quotes
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
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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.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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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.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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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.
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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.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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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.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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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!
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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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.
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You can name your own salary in this business. I call mine Fred.
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I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.
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Cutting NASA education funds would most severely affect students from low- to middle-income families and students from non-Ivy League-level schools.
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As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
