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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Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay.
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Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
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How can this cosmic religious experience be communicated from man to man, if it cannot lead to a definite conception of God or to a theology? It seems to me that the most important function of art and of science is to arouse and keep alive this feeling in those who are receptive.
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I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs.
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Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.
