David Baldacci Quotes
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
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The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
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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.
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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.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
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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.
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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
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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.
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We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.
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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.
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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.'
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If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.
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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.
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When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.
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Certain exterior impulses hit the economic mechanism and thereby initiate more or less regular oscillations.
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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.
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I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.
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I work all summer and throughout the whole season to be prepared for the challenges that I have to face.
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I'm a complete foodie, but I'm a terrible cook. If a guy can get me in the kitchen and we actually have fun cooking, that's amazing.
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When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.
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I really do think VR is now one of the most exciting things that can be done in this whole sector of consumer electronic entertainment stuff.
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It has been a big emphasis for us this week.
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Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.
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But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
