Seth Godin Quotes
If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
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I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.
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I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
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Atlanta embraced us. We have so much respect for them, and they have respect for us.
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'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'
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The whole thing with VR is that it doesn't matter, local versus networked gaming. The goal in virtual reality isn't to have people sit in the same room with headsets on.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.
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Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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By and large these attempts to rewrite history were not taken seriously, but it was disconcerting to hear that they had gained even a toehold.
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I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.
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Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices.
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Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.
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I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.
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If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?
