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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
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I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.
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If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.
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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
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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.
