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'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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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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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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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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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it's like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place.
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People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.
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People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
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The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.
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I'm tired of this party stuff, where we're going to do what's right for this party, or we're going to do what's right for that party. Let's just get together and do what's right for the country. I think that's what all of us want.
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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.
