Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
Quotes to Explore
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.
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You know what is a nice thought? Retirement.
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It's time to get the FDA to reverse its 1994 decision not to label GM foods.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
