Christopher Bollen Quotes
You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
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Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.
Gail Devers -
I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
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I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
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It is a fact not to be disputed, that the aristocracy have not 'progressed ' in proportion to the other classes. A young nobleman of the present day has not a better education than his ancestor in the time of Elizabeth.
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As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
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My grandmother taught me how to make the basic pate brise pastry crust when I was young. The one thing I learned simply by eating her endless variations on delicious tarts for dinner every night is that this dough can be used for just about anything - sweet or savory.
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Public service is about serving all the people, including the ones who are not like you.
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Often, I am asked, 'What was your father like?' or, 'What would he think?' These are very difficult questions to answer, as I was so very young when I lost my father.
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I tell people all the time, 'As long as my kids are doing good, I'm gonna be alright.'
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The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.
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When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl.
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Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.
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You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.