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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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'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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Christians are being systematically exterminated.
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Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.
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Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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I enjoy writing.
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The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't go anywhere. They invented paper, printing, and a written form of their language, but hardly anyone in China was taught to read.
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When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.
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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.
