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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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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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.
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America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
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'Honour'-based violence is a form of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a broad category.
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If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.
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Cheer for your teammates, regardless of whether they're fast or slow, veteran or neophyte, varsity or JV. Or rally the spirits of someone who's had a bad performance. Also, encourage stragglers during tough workouts; jog back to 'pick up' a runner who's behind during a long run.
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In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.
