Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
Quotes to Explore
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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I always watch the work I do.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.
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In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
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Once you stop learning, you start dying.
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When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
