Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
W. H. Auden -
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.
Jackson Katz -
I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
F. Murray Abraham -
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
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.
Patrice O'Neal -
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.
Barton Gellman
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
Laura Moser -
I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.
Tanc Sade -
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
Eddie Albert -
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.
Rachel Maddow -
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.
Laird Barron
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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.
Imelda Marcos -
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
Barbara Kingsolver -
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.
Yuna -
If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.
Ted Yoho -
I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.
Candice Accola
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I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.
Caitlin Moran -
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
Frances Wright -
I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.
Ingrid Bergman -
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein -
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself.
John Searle -
I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
Malcolm Gladwell