Seth Godin Quotes
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
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You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.
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Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
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Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
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What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
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I have a very great respect for Americans, and having been a correspondent in this country, and I believe that Americans are people who respond much better to facts and truthful, genuine speculation, than they do to purely, kind of phoney, adulation.
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
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A map shows maybes.
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In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.
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There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.
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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
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Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
