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Derek Bok Quotes

I don't regard the fact that there's a disparity in test scores nearly as importantly as I do the need for diversity, because I know from long experience that test scores, though useful, are a very limited measure of things that matter in choosing students.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Experience Diversity Long Measure

As soon as I could ride a bike... I was always riding over to the Museum of Science and Industry to explore. It's where I first began to develop a fascination with machines and scientific principles.

John M. Grunsfeld

Science Ride Bike Museum Principles

I was in New York on September 11 when those planes hit the World Trade Center. At the time, it seemed like it was a local thing. But three or four days later, by the time we drove across the country in the bus, we realized it wasn't a local thing. You could really feel the states become united. We became the United States of America.

Time New York World America You New

I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business.

Business Music Connected Way Always

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

Mary Lou Retton

Success Financial Go Medals Paid

My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.

Michelle Bachelet

Women Push Political Empowerment Top

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

Small Only Parts

It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Age Time Architecture Never Through

All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.

Imagination Brain Think Feel Create

Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.

Music I Can Rock Classic Old See

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

Bryant H. McGill

Education Yourself Be Yourself Think

You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.

You Know Kind Sound Same Rolling

I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.

Bridgette Wilson

Family Balance Me Doing Career Kids

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