Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
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For two thousand years, Jesus has revenged himself on us for not having died on a sofa.
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My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind – I've always loved it.
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I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.
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Chiral receptor sites in the human body interact only with drug molecules having the proper absolute configuration, resulting in marked differences in the pharmacological activities of enantiomers.
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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
