Christopher Rouse Quotes
I've written under the radar for quite some time, and I always looked at editing as writing.
Quotes to Explore
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.
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Solitude sometimes is best society.
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[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!
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The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.
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I've written under the radar for quite some time, and I always looked at editing as writing.
