Clayton M. Christensen Quotes
It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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We are a democracy, and we get the leaders we deserve because we elect them.
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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.
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Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.
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All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.
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It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
