Seth Godin Quotes
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I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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’Oh, yes, he thinks a lot of you. I remember his very words. 'Mr Wooster, miss' he said 'is, perhaps, mentally somewhat negligible but he has a heart of gold’
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Here in a little lonely roomI am master of earth and sea,And the planets come to me.
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And all at once I lost my breathAnd all at once was scared to deathFor all at once I owned the earth and sky.Now I've met Miss JonesWe'll keep on meeting till we die,Yes, Miss Jones and I.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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I like lowriders and music from the '50s and '60s. A lot of people assumed I was Mexican.
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I think there are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first. I can't say exactly why, and it's kind of a bummer... But I also can't explain why the wallflower girl in the romantic comedy always gets the guy in the end. That's just the way those movies go.
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I loved 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I'm a huge Judy Garland fan, too.
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The only people who make love all the time are liars.
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I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.
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I look at some of the old villains in the Disney movies. If you really listen, you can hear some of the villains or some of the supporting characters, they use the voices over and over because they were so versatile in the way that they performed on voiceovers.
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The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity.
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Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.
