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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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 darkness always teemed with unexplained sound - and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.
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Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.
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I'm a very laid-back person.
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The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
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As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine.
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In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.
