Christian Rudder Quotes
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
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I know everything about Michael Jordan.
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You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me.
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I did a show when I was two, but I didn't start acting as a child. I wanted to go to school every day and be with my friends and really have that experience.
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The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
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I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.
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For anything to be made whole, the first step is to know what’s missing.
