Seth Godin Quotes
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
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The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.
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I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.
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When you're a skateboarder or a snowboarder, it affects the way you talk, the way you move, the way you interact with the world and other people.
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Ruefully admitting we can neither remain children nor all become artists still less saints and mystics, we turn back, regretfully, but massively, to the time-ridden world.
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If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
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Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.
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Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.
