Seth Godin Quotes
Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
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It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.
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People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.
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I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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I was the one who was always calling people.
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.
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I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.
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If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
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So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
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The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
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I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.
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'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.
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I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.
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Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.
