Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?Malcolm Gladwell
Quotes to Explore
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My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
Lady Gaga -
You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
Larry Hagman -
There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
Paloma Faith -
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino -
You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
Maj Sjowall -
If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
Zara Larsson
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
Yehuda Berg -
Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
Hale Irwin -
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
Ian Hacking -
Midi is my hobby.
J. J. Johnson -
I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
Abigail Breslin -
I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
R. Kelly
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
M.I.A. -
I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
Lapo Elkann -
When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
Zaha Hadid -
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell -
I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
Karl Pilkington -
Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.
Catherine Ryan Hyde -
We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.
Ralph Boston -
Rex is 60 years old with 13 million images and 10 million in archive. It's the first time we've had a historic archive to work with, which is super interesting.
Jon Oringer -
Whatever interests is interesting.
William Hazlitt -
It is extremely disappointing to me to see that even now when leading Democrats and even military veterans try to make our energy future an area of common ground and not a battleground, they are still being rebuffed by dirty energy devotees in both parties and undermined overall by the polluter lobby.
Van Jones -
If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?
Malcolm Gladwell