Seth Godin Quotes
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'
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The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
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Sometimes I like to vent.
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Even in normal life, I'm not the skinniest model.
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It's understood in Minnesota that we're going to start losing businesses if we can't find more workers.
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Helping refugees settle and integrate peacefully, often in the face of distrust and prejudice, is essential work.
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Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in a novel and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.
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Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
