Seth Godin Quotes
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
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I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.
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Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports.
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I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
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I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.
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Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
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Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.
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C'est une maladie naturelle à l'homme de croire qu'il possède la vérité directement…
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.
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The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
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Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.
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It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.
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History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out there to be discovered and translated. We make them speak, we talk to them, and they inform what we say.
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I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.
