Seth Godin Quotes
In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'
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Any reaction is better than none.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
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I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed.
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Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer.
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Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
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The failure mode of clever is 'asshole.'
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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If I could take you back in time to the fifties and walk you around to some of the places where I grew up, you'd be trying to get back in your time machine. It wasn't all sock hops - matter of fact, I never saw a sock hop.
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In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.
