Seth Godin Quotes
You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
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Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.
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People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.
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So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
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We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.
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You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.
