Christian Rudder Quotes
There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I love Twitter.
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There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
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It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.
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The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.
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An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
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I can't wear the same outfit twice without washing it. And tennis is a grueling occupation.
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The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.
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There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.
