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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Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
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I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there.
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I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me.
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There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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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.
