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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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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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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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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We can change the world with every thought we have and every word we speak.
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As a professional track cyclist, I have always challenged myself, and I enjoy seeing how I cope when faced with the unknown.
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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.
