Seth Godin Quotes
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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I really like Iceland. One of the nicest things about it is that I hardly ever had to reach for my credit card. There's practically nothing there to go shopping for.
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A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings
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How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon, Still, Upon your face. You shine, Beloved, You and the moon. But which is the reflection?
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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Catering to the passionate is exactly what you should do.
