Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
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In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
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Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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Never judge a stranger by his clothes.
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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
