Seth Godin Quotes
You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.
Quotes to Explore
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
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I think we all have had better days in competition.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
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I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.
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Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
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Even working from nature you have to compose.
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The bees came booming as if they had never gone, As if hyacinths had never gone. We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy. This meansNight-blue is an inconstant thing. The seraph Is satyr in Saturn, according to his thoughts.
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Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?
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Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.
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I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.
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One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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It's those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it's a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.
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So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.
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Most of our children have access to Internet-accessible technology, yet most of us are actually not paying much attention to what they're doing online.
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You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.
