Derek Bok Quotes
There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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For very few people is there a time when you, quote unquote, make it.
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I'm not big on commissions.
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A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.
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You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
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Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.
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There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.
