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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One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
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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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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
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You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.
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Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.
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When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.
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I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.
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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.
