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The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
George Pierce Baker
Playwright
Dramatic
Pleasure
Adequate
Characterization
Memorable
Impersonate
Instinct
Dialogue
Provide
Itself
Literature
Produces
Actor
Desire
We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.
George Pierce Baker
Best
Drama
Weakest
Failing
Limit
Encourage
Poorest
Really
Appeal
Thereby
Foster
Elements
Founded when Abraham Lincoln believed education could lead the nation out of its darkest days, Ohio State now provides a powerful platform of interdisciplinary academic programs, world-class scholars, outstanding students, and extensive research capabilities.
Gordon Gee
Education
Darkest
Nation
Research
World-Class
Programs
State
Out
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Could
Lead
Students
Scholars
Outstanding
Powerful
Days
Academic
Lincoln
Provides
Ohio
Capabilities
Platform
Now
Believed
Founded
Extensive
I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.
Gordon Gee
Education
Believe
Dream
Purpose
Higher
Open
Calling
American
American Dream
Door
Keep
I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.
Gordon Gee
Life
Book
My Life
First
Mountains
Spent
Shadows
Town
Cliffs
Years
Utah
I'm the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That shows a lack of commitment to attract and retain.
Gordon Gee
Commitment
Seventh
Johnson
Retain
Football
Football Coach
Head
Attract
Lack
Bobby
Coach
Shows
Chancellor
At least for me, I believe that one learns from one's mistakes. And I made significant mistakes, and I learned from them.
Gordon Gee
Me
Made
Mistakes
Believe
Significant
Learned
Learns
Least
Them
You have great athletic directors, you let them run it; you keep yourself informed, but I'm not the athletic director. I'm the president of the university.
Gordon Gee
Great
You
Director
Yourself
President
Run
Athletic
Directors
Informed
Them
Keep
University
Jewish students, by culture and by ability and by the very nature of their liveliness, make a university a much more habitable place in terms of intellectual life.
Gordon Gee
Life
Nature
Culture
Ability
More
Habitable
Students
Terms
Make
Intellectual
Intellectual Life
Very
Place
Much
University
Jewish
We're going to make certain that we set a very high standard for ourselves.
Gordon Gee
Ourselves
High
High Standard
Make
Very
Going
Certain
Standard
Set
In tumultuous times, it's important to have a very mature leader.
Gordon Gee
Leader
Important
Very
Times
Mature
Tumultuous
I have a passion for academic life, a passion for students and for the ability and the narrative of a university to make a difference in the world in which they reside.
Gordon Gee
Life
World
Passion
Ability
Students
Academic
Make
Make A Difference
Narrative
Difference
Which
Reside
University
I did not want to go anywhere where I would be interim.
Gordon Gee
Would
Would-Be
Go
Did
Where
Want
Anywhere
Interim
The strength of the American higher education system is that it is a multifaceted, multi-layered system, and that is what makes us very strong.
Gordon Gee
Education
Strength
Strong
Higher Education
System
Higher
Makes
Very
American
Us
Multifaceted
I got all sorts of great Nebraska jokes.
Gordon Gee
Great
Jokes
Sort
Got
Nebraska
My mouth is sore from continually extracting my foot from it.
Gordon Gee
Mouth
Foot
Sore
Continually
The notion of the large, massive public university that can exist in isolated splendor is dead.
Gordon Gee
Splendor
Massive
Dead
Isolated
Exist
Public
Notion
Large
University
I tend to deal with most issues with humor... always have and always will.
Gordon Gee
Humor
Will
Tend
Most
Deal
Always
Issues
I believe being president of a private institution is a remarkable experience, but at Ohio State, it's a calling.
Gordon Gee
Experience
Believe
President
State
Remarkable
Institution
Calling
Private
Ohio
Being
What I should do is go over to the surgical suites and get my foot extricated from my mouth.
Gordon Gee
Mouth
Foot
Over
Surgical
Go
Get
Should
Online is ridiculous. Places like Ohio State bring people here together, and students teach each other.
Gordon Gee
Together
People
Other
State
Online
Students
Like
Ohio
Places
Teach
Each
Ridiculous
Bring
Here
Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
Haim Ginott
Carries
Collection
Instant
Himself
Within
Insults
Us
Each
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
Hans Rosling
Good
Food
Day
People
World
Better
Deficiency
Way
Those
Worst
Worst Thing
Civil
Could
Part
Support
For The Day
Globalization
Governments
Disease
Being
Much
Poorest
Billion
Who
Suffer
Thing
Societies
Need
My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.
Hans Rosling
Best
Me
School
Patient
Best Friend
Tried
Magician
He
Failed
Got
Were
Friend
Taught
Then
Shown
Medical
Medical School
I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
Hans Rosling
Change
Age
Problem
World
Year
Think
Meet
Relatively
Total
Born
Per
Since
Major
Major Problem
Around
Climate
Climate Change
Years
Stable
Stopped
Children
Regard
Billion
Many
Population
Growing
Population Growth
Now
Growth
Number
Below
We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.
Hans Rosling
Great
Change
Changing
Otherwise
Telling
Would
Would-Be
India
Taken
Countries
Most
Within
Climate
Climate Change
Experts
China
China And India
Us
International
Actions
Suffer
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