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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You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
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I always give homeless people money, and my friends yell at me, 'He's only going to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.' And I'm thinking, 'Oh, like I wasn't?'
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The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
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I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
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I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.
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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.
