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Derek Bok Quotes

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Happiness Goal Country India First

One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

Power Day People Mind Control Done

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Teacher Great Mind Believe Artist

Being acknowledged by 'Vogue' and invited to do 'Today I'm Wearing' was a really great moment for me, and the photo diary of my outfits was a really fun thing to do.

Suki Waterhouse

Today Great Moment Fun Me Diary

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

Think Better Doing Right Suffer Our

When it comes to Fashion Week, I'm over the too-cool-for-school runway experience with loud music in a raw space that's inconvenient for everyone.

Music Experience Space Fashion Week

I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the GMATs, the MCATs. I just took them for fun.

Love Fun Test Standardized Out Just

The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.

Christian Slater

Action You Way See I See Going

This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.

Bradley Whitford

Election Show TV Show TV

Widening a garment or making it larger is not understanding the real curves of a plus size women.

Ashley Nell Tipton

Women Understanding Curves Real Size

Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath.

Morris Gleitzman

Me Problems Matter Write Always Big

But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.

Think Captain Different Just

It's an awful thing to be aware of your own corruption. I think a lot of people are bound by the particular economic system we work in to serve companies and masters who aren't really telling people what they're doing.

Work People Think Corruption Doing

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