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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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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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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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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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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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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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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I have a high tolerance for discomfort.
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He that will have his son have a respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. Maxima debetur pueris reverentia The greatest respect is owed to the children.
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I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.
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Television is fickle, and it's fleeting.
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Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.
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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.
