Seth Godin Quotes
The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
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I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.
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I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respect as broadcasters.
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Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
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I think one of the things that people take for granted when they watch a film is the actors have to exhibit an extraordinary amount of force to block out the stuff that isn't a part of their reality. And when the audience sees it, they're seeing everything the actor isn't seeing.
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You never know where the future will take you.
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My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.
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As coaches say, it's about finding your role. We're coming together as a team.
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Everyone has said very supportive things coming out of D.C. today. We can't wait when the race has begun.
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Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.
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Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.
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I believe God is real, but I believe God calls me beyond myself to take responsibility for my life and to try top work to allow other people to be themselves and to take responsibility for their lives.
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How true it is that arguments have only power over us while the temper is disposed to listen to them!
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Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.
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All men are ignorant, just in different fields.
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When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.
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The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
