Derek Bok Quotes

The University has a moral obligation to provide equal opportunities to women, minority persons and all other groups who work or seek to work at Harvard.

Derek Bok

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Sardinia has to have some of the best seafood on the planet. I'm a sea urchin freak, and Sardinia's are some of the best I've had.

Andrew Zimmern

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Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.

Andrea Jung

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For me, it's very important that shows about gay people are messy and complicated and are truthful about what we do.

Andrew Haigh

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Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

Stephen Hawking

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It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

Sidney Blumenthal

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The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

Tony Blair

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Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are illicit; they're dirty.

Robin Wright

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I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

Ruth Wilson

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Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively.

Monica Crowley

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If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.

Dominique de Villepin

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The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.'

Douglas Rushkoff

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