Christian Rudder Quotes
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
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I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
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I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
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When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
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I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that.
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It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.
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My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
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When you want to learn about how people write, their unpolished, unguarded words are the best place to start, and we have reams of them.
