Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
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I've had enough of breakdowns and diagrams-Judging from picture books, apparently Heaven is a partly cloudy place.
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At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.
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A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
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Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
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I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.
