“All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-centur...” — Malcolm Gladwell Quote

“All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.”

“If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?”

“An aggressive drug-testing program would cut down on certain abuses, but its never going to catch everyone - or even close to everyone.”

“I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.”

“I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.”

“I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.”