Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
Quotes to Explore
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Age for me is just a number.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.
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'The Facebook Era' articulated a radical vision for how social media would transform media, relationships, and influence, creating new opportunities for businesses in the process.
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I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.
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I operated a business where I let someone steal three-quarters of a million dollars.
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When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.
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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
