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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I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.
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You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.
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The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.
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Labels fund things and have resources for you to use. But just because you sign doesn't mean you sign yourself away so they can then tell you what to do. You need to have a plan yourself before they do.
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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.
