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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I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.
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If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.
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To be a white kid into hip-hop meant you'd sought it out and you practiced the art. Which meant dedication and diligence, as well as removing yourself at least occasionally from your own comfort zone and circumstances, and from people who looked like you.
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Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.
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I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
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Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.
