Seth Godin Quotes
All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
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What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.
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Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It's the rich fox guarding the filthy, overcrowded henhouse.
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Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.
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Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.
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Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.
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We need legislation that encourages increased competition and tort reform and combats fraud, waste, and abuse. This would drive down health care costs, provide more 'bottom line' for our small businesses and lead to more private sector job growth.
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All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
