Seth Godin Quotes
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
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When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
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A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
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In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.
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You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
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Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) .
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Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.
