Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

Malcolm Gladwell

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• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • People
  • Kids
  • Opportunity

• It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Fun
  • Funny

• It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Fall
  • Doing
  • Bird

• My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Why
  • Enough
  • Talent

• It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Environment
  • Better

• I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Film
  • Budget

• Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.

  

  FKA twigs
  • World
  • Real
  • Racism

• I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done this at considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to stay in Sierra Leone.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Done
  • Cost
  • Stability

• I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Up
  • World
  • Creative

• Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Character
  • Movies
  • Young

• Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Day

• The future ain't what it used to be.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Future
  • Used

• LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Circumstances
  • Shot
  • Off

• The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

  

  Campbell Newman
  • Single
  • Listening
  • Gold

• It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

  

  Hal Price
  • Great
  • Money
  • Business

• I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Song

• Chorus of Birds: Man naturally is deceitful, ever indeed, and always, in every one thing. (tr. Warter 1830, p. 199)

  

  Aristophanes

• I have been 130 lbs. as well as 215 lbs. I have had blond, strawberry blond, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Hair
  • Green
  • Pink

• I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Light

• St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Time
  • Country
  • May

• I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Always
  • Human