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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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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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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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'
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Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
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There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
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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.
