Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.
Quotes to Explore
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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I was so bad in school that acting gave me some kind of identity and gave me a home.
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The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
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'Game Of Thrones' was too big a canvas for a movie, but 'Dirty White Boys' is like a great old Western: there's so much compression, and it's so pressurized, it demands to be told in one sitting.
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Rhyme is an attempt to reassemble and reaffirm the possibility of paradise. There is a wholeness, a serenity, in sounds coupling to form a memory.
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I want more out of life than I've gotten.
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Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.
