Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
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The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.
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The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
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The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.
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If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
