Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
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I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.
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For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.
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Too many pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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Rushing around can be a pointless diversion from actually living your life.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
