Seth Godin Quotes
I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
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Burglars! Good gracious!' cried the little woman, springing from the bed in one bound. The word 'burglar' was a terrible one to her, as it is indeed, to every well-constituted woman. 'Robbery' does not sound nearly so awe-inspiring.
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I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.
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I don't have the fear of my looks changing.
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There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.
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I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
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We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.
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When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
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Female friendship... I think you have friendships that come and go, and then there are ones that the girl becomes a part of your bones.
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A good name is still to be preferred to great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.
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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
