Seth Godin Quotes
It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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I am a lifelong Democrat.
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If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.
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My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
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I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.
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I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.
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We should have a banquet on the day haters die.
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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'Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.'
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I recall playing practical jokes with John Wayne. I once got a whole bunch of keys and had little tags made that said, 'If lost, please return to John Wayne, RKO Studios. Reward.' And I just dropped them all over town. He got a lot of phone calls, people showing up at the studio. He never learned who did it.
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The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.
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If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d' être, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases.
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It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.
