T. C. Boyle Quotes
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.
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In order to work well, markets need a basic level of trust.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.
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It's really frustrating when you're an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, 'This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card - this is his address,' and they say, 'We don't have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.'
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My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
