David Baldacci Quotes
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Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)
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Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.
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Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.
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I'm ever curious about the world.
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People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.
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Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.
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But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.
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Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.
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It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.
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I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.
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Trapped in a trap of your own making.
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Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.
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A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?
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It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between...This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It's a living, breathing something -- you just have to want to learn its rhythm.
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Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will occur. This rarely happens if you inject the inefficiences of humanity into the process.
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Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up!
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Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
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All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.
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As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.
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Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.
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Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.
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Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.
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When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.
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That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so I can live.
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The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.
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Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!
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Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.
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I'm a wicked ping-pong player.
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Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)
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It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello.
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