Clayton Christensen Quotes
I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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My grandmother knitted me a crochet top when I was 15. I still fit into it and will never give it away.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
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People don't realize how amazing elephants are.
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The great thing about being a standard-issue, straight white person is you have so much time. Gay people, people of color, we have less time! We have to be a living Learning Annex to everybody. We don't have time to master hobbies like skipping rocks along lakes.
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Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.
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Yesterday people thought it would be a failure. Today they can see that it's a great success.
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It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
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I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become.
