Derek Bok Quotes
I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.
Quotes to Explore
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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I get homesick.
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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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I'm not a huge fan of my work.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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Nobody wants to retire from football.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.
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As long as I get those running shoes on, then there's no turning back, and I have to go for that run. As long as you've got those workout clothes, you've got them on, you've got to go.
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I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.
