Seth Godin Quotes
Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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I feel like every day I discover new actors and new filmmakers and different genres, and it's just so cool.
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Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see.
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That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.
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Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.
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Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was one of the worst boxing matches I've ever seen, but millions of people watched it because of the personalities involved.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more.
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One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.
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The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone to be in.
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I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
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People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.
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Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.
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The golf facet of my life doesn't go with the rest of my life, which is a rough-and-tumble life. I work in real estate development, which is the toughest business, and I do it in the toughest city. I deal with ruthless people.
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I noticed that when my daughter was born, my son really, really liked her. But then as she started getting older, and as she started crawling around our house and touching different things that were his, sibling rivalry issues started appearing.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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Nothing gets my blood pumping like a little Animotion.
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Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.
