Seth Godin Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.
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I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.
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I'm not really a popular fan of the whole Hall of Fame thing. I've had a lot of ups and downs, and I don't feel deserving a lot of times.
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With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.
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I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.
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The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move.
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I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.
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Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.
