Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.Malcolm Gladwell
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If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
Laura Linney -
I'm a proud family man.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
Warren Kole -
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
Malcolm Gladwell -
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Samuel Butler -
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
Walter Dean Myers
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
Valerie Plame -
I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
Earle Combs -
We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
Naomi Klein -
There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
Aaron Sorkin -
I can always go back to education.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
S. Jay Olshansky
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
Jack Dee -
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
Fernando Pessoa -
I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
Caitlyn Jenner -
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
G. Willow Wilson -
I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
Brown Campbell
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The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls the opinions and habits of the masses. To advertise on a scale which will reach fifty million persons is expensive. To reach and persuade the group leaders who dictate the public's thoughts and actions is likewise expensive.
Edward Bernays -
I always loved cars. I used to play 'Need for Speed' all the time... any racing game.
Nick van de Wall -
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
S. Jay Olshansky -
I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.
Bill Frisell -
That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
Malcolm Gladwell