Derek Bok Quotes
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.Derek Bok
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
Zeljko Ivanek -
It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
Ed Wood -
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
Abdus Salam -
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
Ma Jun -
When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
Barbra Streisand -
Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
B. D. Wong -
Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
Larry Holmes -
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba -
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg -
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
Manuel Puig -
I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
Edie McClurg -
I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
Dan Quisenberry -
I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
Adam McKay -
I'm not hard to get along with.
Jack Nicholson
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Mothers and daughters find in each other the source of great comfort but also of great pain. We talk to each other in better and worse ways than we talk to anyone else.
Deborah Tannen -
I just want to pitch well enough for us to win. In my mind, that's what it's all about.
Drew Pomeranz -
Volvo is like a mysterious, beautiful woman. We just look at her from far away, amazed. We don't dare get close to her. We're just a bunch of farm boys.
Li Shufu -
Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."
Ernest Hemingway -
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
Derek Bok