Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones.
Quotes to Explore
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.
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History is not hatred.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.
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I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones.
