Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
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The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'
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One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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I don't like going out. I'm more of a watch TV, hang out, Netflix kind of guy. I don't like leaving; I don't like talking to people. It gives me anxiety.
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Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.
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Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.
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People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
