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.
Quotes to Explore
-
The world is always in movement.
-
I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
-
I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
-
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.
-
My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
-
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.
-
The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
-
I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.
-
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
-
Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
-
We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
-
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.
