Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Christians are being systematically exterminated.
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I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
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A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.
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I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.
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I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
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You just have to focus on what's really important in life, and that's your friends and your family and the life that you build.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
