Edwin Black Quotes
Behind every text footnote is a file folder with all the hardcopy documentation needed to document every sentence in this book at a moment’s notice. Moreover, I assembled a team of hair-splitting, nitpicking, adversarial researchers and archivists to review each and every sentence, collectively ensuring that each fact and fragment of a fact was backed up with the necessary black and white documents.

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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
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Die menschliche Vernunft hat hier, wie allerwärts in ihrem reinen Gebrauche, so lange es ihr an Kritik fehlt, vorher alle mögliche unrechte Wege versucht, ehe es ihr gelingt, den einzigen wahren zu treffen.
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We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.
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Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line.
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Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
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Electric circuitry profoundly involves men with one another. Information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously.
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Behind every text footnote is a file folder with all the hardcopy documentation needed to document every sentence in this book at a moment’s notice. Moreover, I assembled a team of hair-splitting, nitpicking, adversarial researchers and archivists to review each and every sentence, collectively ensuring that each fact and fragment of a fact was backed up with the necessary black and white documents.