Malcolm Gladwell Quotes
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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I am not a madman or a nut.
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Sometimes I wear red lipstick - it makes me feel sophisticated.
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I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.
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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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All my books are optimistic!
