Seth Godin Quotes

As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

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• If you start lifting weights, you will expect to put weight on, as muscle is heavier than fat. But you have to look more at your body shape - you will get heavier - but you might get smaller and heavier at the same time, which is fine. And it doesn't really matter what you weigh as long as you are happy with your shape and size!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.

  

  Dane Cook
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• In my 20s, I wanted to be hot; now I want to be healthy.

  

  Camila Alves
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• I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!

  

  Maddie Hasson
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• I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

  

  Sally Pearson
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• I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

  

  Calvin Klein
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• Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.

  

  Oliver North
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• I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
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• I want to make 'Smackdown' the brand to watch, but beyond that main-eventing, 'WrestleMania' is the next step.

  

  Becky Lynch
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• Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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• A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
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• I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

  

  Calvin Harris
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• I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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• Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
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• For me, for a very long time, I was in denial because when you say you're sad or you're overwhelmed, we consider it whining or complaining. People say, 'Count your blessings,' and it's like, 'Yeah, I am, but I'm still sad. Something is wrong with me.' I had to acknowledge it.

  

  Karen Civil
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• I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I didn't want those huge, taupe bras. Everything was beige, with massive amounts of hooks.

  

  Jessica Valenti
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• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
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• My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

  

  Mark Steyn
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• As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.

  

  Seth Godin
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