Amado Boudou Quotes
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I still have a young attitude.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I like to do Pilates.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.
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About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America.
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In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.
