Derek Bok Quotes

Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.

Derek Bok

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade in the summertime and excellent cherries in the late summer. Having cherry blossoms around gives the best springtime vibe ever.

Andrew Wyatt

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We should be fingerprinting environmentalists... They are out to destroy the country.

Ann Coulter

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I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure.' It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.

Sue Townsend

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Whether it's spending more time and money at thrift shops for threads (anti-consumerist threads, mind you), or combing the record store for the most unknown/least coherent band they can find, there's one thing that hipsters constantly want you to know: that they are better than you.

Steven Crowder

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I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.

Sofia Vergara

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The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you.

Steve Nash

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These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.

Troy Vincent

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I am a huge fan of gays. They love me, and I love them. They think of me as sort of a gay icon.

Tori Spelling

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In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.

Lois Capps

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Though I'm a New Englander, I'm very indoorsy once the mercury drops.

Julia Glass

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Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.

Christopher Koch

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By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

Brad Pitt

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