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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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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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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In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life's other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand.
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If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!
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Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.
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Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.
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Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.
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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.
