Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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I still keep my accent.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
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Our last words to you, which are the words I began with: William Jefferson Clinton is not guilty of the charges that have been brought against him, he did not commit perjury, he did not commit obstruction of justice, he must not be removed from office.
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A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.
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People need to see signs of equal treatment across society.
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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
