Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
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The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
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If everything is the same, nothing is special.
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My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
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I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
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The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
