Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.
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I boxed 15 years in a club.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?
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'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society
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It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.
