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 -
The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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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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There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism.
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
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I play well with everybody.
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When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.
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It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.
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If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
