Christian Rudder Quotes
The change Twitter has wrought on language itself is nothing compared with the change it is bringing to the study of language.
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Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
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I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
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I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.
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I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even get my mind around it to write about it.
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It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.
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The change Twitter has wrought on language itself is nothing compared with the change it is bringing to the study of language.
