Seth Godin Quotes

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• I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Life
  • America
  • Spirit

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Character
  • Wisdom
  • Looking

• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Present

• Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Up
  • Important
  • Culture

• My whole deal is I want to have a principle-based, member-driven caucus.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Deal
  • Caucus

• The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Up
  • Game

• I do not look to Hollywood to give me character clues.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Character
  • Me
  • Look

• My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Why
  • Feeling
  • Voice

• I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

  

  Iain Banks
  • Great
  • Nothing
  • Fact

• My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Long
  • Grandfather
  • Island

• Death's the discarder.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Death

• The city and the crowd unidealise love; and love, in the young warm heart of a girl, should be a dream apart from all commoner emotions - as sweet and as ethereal as the blush with which it is born and dies. Beauty gives its own gracefulness to love - there must be romance blended with the passion inspired by the very lovely face which the mirror reflected.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Girl

• An education is meaningless unless it equips students to have a better life.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Life
  • Education

• Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

  

  Livy
  • Humble
  • Greatness

• I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Dark

• I love color, and I'm very inspired by curvy women and helping them feel good in their clothes.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Good
  • Women
  • Color

• Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Death

• The choice to become vegetarian was purely for ethical reasons. Like most meat eaters, I was a little concerned with removing meat from my diet. Also, like most meat eaters, I was blind to the horrible ways animals are treated.

  

  Andy Lally
  • Reasons
  • Meat
  • Vegetarian

• The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Future
  • Leadership

• I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Life
  • Love
  • Radio

• 'Mrs Funnybones' is based and structured around my columns, and it's about how a modern woman looks at India and how India looks right back at her. Since I have a weakness for illustrations, there are also a few funny illustrations in there as well.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Funny

• Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.

  

  Seth Godin
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