Derek Bok Quotes

What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.

Derek Bok

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 22, 1930

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We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

Jeremy Corbyn

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Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

Ann Beattie

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If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.

Jed S. Rakoff

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As president, I was more successful; I had more opportunity than as prime minister. Why? I didn't have the power to give orders, to command, but I had the opportunity to call people to volunteer. In my period of presidency, I never heard the word 'no.'

Shimon Peres

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Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

Tony Gilroy

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I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.

Ron Fournier

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You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

Ruth Negga

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I think you go nuts when you get older.

Roy Lichtenstein

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You've got to feel a little nervous when you first meet Spielberg. The guy's an apparition.

Mike Binder

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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

Jonathan Lethem

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In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

Derek Walcott

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I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it. I was going to be a priest; I'm proud of it. And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

Clarence Thomas

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