Clayton M. Christensen Quotes
Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself - and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.
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That's one of the best parts of my job. I love interacting with the community, getting out there and getting to know people and making bonds with the community.
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This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.
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Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.
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The Singh Brothers are good. I've actually known them for a long time.
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Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself - and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves.
