"When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from."

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"Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains."

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"In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue."

"Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us."

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"We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them."

"The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College."

"I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead."

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