David Baldacci Quotes

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

David Baldacci

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• The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Latin
  • Latin America

• Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Future
  • Eye

• I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Guy

• The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Fear
  • Knowledge
  • Allah

• But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Alone
  • Determination
  • Socialism

• Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Faith
  • Identity
  • Young

• We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Professional
  • Successful

• One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Night
  • Black
  • Party

• We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Way
  • Always
  • More

• I've been doing this for 33 years, and sometimes you make movies and nobody cares. But when people care, it's the greatest thing in the world - even when it's passionately against the title - because it's going to start a conversation.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • World
  • Care

• People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'

  

  Ian Doescher
  • People
  • History
  • Comedy

• If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Internet
  • Check
  • Spell

• It's important that I get time to run, to just go for a jog for about 30 minutes. It helps with my voice, but it also kind of gives me a little bit of time to myself - and you get to see a city.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Important
  • City

• 'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn't leave. It was so disturbing, but we loved it.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Me

• When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Wonder

• Certain exterior impulses hit the economic mechanism and thereby initiate more or less regular oscillations.

  

  Ragnar Frisch

• A society that put more emphasis on birth than ability was likely to breed ability out of its ruling class.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Society

• I tend not to say much on the phone now. If I leave a message, it's benign. You edit yourself according to the new circumstances of the new world. I think it would be quite good to get some sort of laws.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • World
  • Good

• A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Money
  • Death

• Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

  

  Mignon McLaughlin
  • Character
  • Effort
  • Things

• Finger pointing never got anything done!

  

  David Pratt
  • Done

• It's always fun to pass on what I've learned to the younger people.

  

  Carrie Preston
  • Learned
  • Younger
  • Pass

• I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Up
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

  

  David Baldacci