Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.
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The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.
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People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.
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I don't believe in auditioning. I'm a bad auditioner. I don't like it.
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Music doesn't have to have lyrics; it doesn't have to be a particular type of music - it has the ability to bring out really strong and hopefully good emotional reactions in people.
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I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
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We should be firing bad teachers.
