David Baldacci Quotes

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

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• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Everyone

• So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • American
  • Day
  • Goal

• We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Country
  • May
  • Problem

• I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Career
  • Interested

• I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Media

• The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Band
  • New

• Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Country
  • Amazing
  • Entrepreneur

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Technology
  • Day
  • Moving

• If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Remember
  • High
  • Want

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Day
  • Always

• I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Great
  • Give
  • Direction

• I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Career
  • Old

• I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Gay
  • Politics
  • Late

• Adequacy is sufficient.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Sufficient
  • Adequacy

• Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Important
  • Notes

• Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• German accents and Hassidic accents aren't that romantic. They're more harsh. Although Hebrew, when spoken by certain people, sounds beautiful. There's this beautiful woman I know who speaks Hebrew, and when she speaks, it's so attractive. Maybe it's who's speaking it.

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • People
  • She
  • Beautiful

• There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And that comes out of a variety of reasons, but fundamentally comes out of how that particular experience connects with your effective systems of response.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Reasons

• Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.

  

  Peter Coyote
  • People
  • Model
  • Uncle

• In my bullpen sessions, I'm just trying to feel comfortable, throw strikes, and not get too complicated.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Trying

• Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

  

  David Baldacci
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Why