Derek Bok Quotes
In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction projects.
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The world is always in movement.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
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The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.
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One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.
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Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
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All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.
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When a person doesn’t understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn’t search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn’t understand.
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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
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I try desperately to never drink bottled water.
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I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.
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I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
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In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction projects.
