David Baldacci Quotes
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Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.
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Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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Having children is what a woman is born for, really.
Nastassja Kinski -
I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.
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It is so gratifying for me the degree to which the Minions have been embraced. It's almost unprecedented in the CG animated world. It's amazing. That's really all a creator hopes for, that their characters grow beyond them. It's like Darth Vader and Batman. They've gotten bigger than their creators.
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The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
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When I was playing, there were only eight teams in each league, and you didn't have any playoffs.
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Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues.
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I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.
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I'm a wicked ping-pong player.