Clayton M. Christensen Quotes
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For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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I don't envy young actors.
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I know nothing about technology.
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There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
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I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
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Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
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Schooling is so important.
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Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.
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By this time trapped inside the drug's reverie I could have sprayed out Michelangelo's Last Judgement on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. A yacht would be a beggar's handcart by comparison.
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She said, her children should not live on trash, her children had to fight for their livings, having such a silly, puffed-up ignoramus of a father, her girls were not going to be underfed “mud rats.”
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Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
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My teacher, Professor Smil Sommarin, was a fine pedagogue, a very generous person, and a great admirer of Kurt Wicksell.
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It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
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I think the Vista fiasco will allow Apple to survive for a bit longer.