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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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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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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My next baby will be my new record.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
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I want my daughter to see that I am a professional and have commitments, but that I'm there when the family needs me, and so is their father. In some cases, more so.
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Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.
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That's why investigations are so important, to drill down and to connect those dots and to get the facts. What we have is a lot of smoke that causes us to want to know more about what has happened.
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Old companies that had nothing to do with software in the past all have software development activities to unlock the invention that's occurring inside of these organizations. And so the developer is a very important part of that overall ecosystem.
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I'm not going to defend Sen. Udall's failed record.
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Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.
