Seth Godin Quotes
It's almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn't care, won't try or isn't any good.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
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I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
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Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.
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Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good.
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I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.
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I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.
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I had great cameramen like Rudolph Mate and Hal Mohr. They'd take an hour to light the proper closeup of me.
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Fans talk to me about how 'Country Christmas' has become a holiday tradition for them and that they all watch to start their holiday season. To be a part of people's holiday traditions is a real joy.
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If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.
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I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.
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No support of one star or one director or one producer can make any individual actor a star. You have to connect with the audience; the audience have to like you. That is something that cannot be manipulated or fought for or tried for. Either they like you, or they don't.
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As always, we start off with asking, 'What's a good episode?' We don't think about timing, and we don't think about logistics. We just think about what would be good.
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As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.
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We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.
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Think about all of the non-entrepreneurial advice and resources you need when building a company. You need lawyers, accountants, financial experts.
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Dance never really goes away; it just reforms and reinvents, and it's become more athletic with new connection to fitness and sport. Dance used to have this exclusivity, but not any more.
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If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the week. I think that the concept of accusing someone of running a paternalistic company, that's not an accusation. One should compliment someone on that.
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I've always liked authors such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury.
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Ornate rhetoric thought out of the rule of Plato... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.
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New is a word for fools in towns who think Style upon style in dress and thought at last Must get somewhere.
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It's almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn't care, won't try or isn't any good.
