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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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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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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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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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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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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It's important in any organization that if visions have any reality at all, it's because the organization believes that the vision is right and that they share in it. Otherwise, it becomes the good idea of one person, and that even more importantly contributes to the sense that it will not survive the departure of that individual.
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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
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For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book.
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For anything to be made whole, the first step is to know what’s missing.
