Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.
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I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.
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One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.
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As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
