Clayton Christensen Quotes
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
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My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'
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'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'
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I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.
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I've found the world's most versatile word - 'cheeky.' The amount of ways you guys can use the word 'cheeky' is quite impressive.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for kosher.
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The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.
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The very first right of every animal is the right to live. As you cannot give life to a dead creature, you do not have the right to take life away from a living one.
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The world is blue.
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It is also possible for a woman to go back to a man’s room, tell him she doesn’t want to have intercourse, mean it, start kissing, have intercourse, and then wish she hadn’t in the morning. How? Kissing is like eating potato chips. Before we know it, we’ve gone further than we said we would.
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Reality is not exhausted by knowledge. Inaccessible to research are the ultimate facts. All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith. Faith is virgin thinking, preceding all transcendent knowledge. To believe is to abide at the extremities of spirit.
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It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.
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When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.
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There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.
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I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think certain things are bred into you.
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Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of Bali.
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Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.
