Seth Godin Quotes
If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
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I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.
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Every season I am inspired by women.
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I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.
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I think I will be a great president having to do with the military and also having to do with taking care of our vets.
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Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
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Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.
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My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.
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Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.
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People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him - it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights. Who knows who is going to be allowed to marry or not marry next.
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I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.
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It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.
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Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.
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Art is thought, and thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.
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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.'
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If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
