David Baldacci Quotes
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive.
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Kanye and Pharrell are in fashion. Why not J Balvin?
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We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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What I do is doing movies and sharing movies.
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I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.
