Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.
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The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
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I think some parents think, 'Oh, having kids is so beautiful; I want others to feel the joy I do.'
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Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.
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...a sense of defeat the years have brought back to him, after what seemed for a while to be triumphs.
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
