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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We'll keep sending more and more conservatives to Washington, and we'll eventually get these bills passed. But don't be afraid to pass good, strong, conservative legislation.
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I find making trailers really frustrating, because sometimes the worst trailers are for the best movies.
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I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.
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I've been doing the Vietnamese nail lady impressions since my mom first took me to get my nails done when I was 12.
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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.
