Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
Life does not owe me a shred.
Valerie Harper -
I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
Manti Te'o -
It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
Patrick Whitesell -
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
Ian K. Smith -
My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
Olivia Williams
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
Iris Chang -
The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
Natasha Lyonne -
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
Aaron Neville -
Women are complicated. We all know that.
Candice Swanepoel -
I just sing. You have to use it.
Aaron Neville
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
Edmund White -
There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'
Ralph Baer -
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
Jack Wagner -
I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
Rachel Sklar -
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Washington Irving
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The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.
Edward Felten -
I always had a frisson when I heard the Champions League music. To play in that competition, to score a goal in it, is something special for me.
Antoine Griezmann -
Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.
John Rhys-Davies -
One day I realized that it didn't matter whether people loved me or not.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish -
People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
Malcolm Gladwell