Clayton Christensen Quotes
We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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Time stays, we go.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people.
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For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.
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The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why.
