Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
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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 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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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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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
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If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
