Seth Godin Quotes
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
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I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
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I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.
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I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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When the first album came out and I heard 'Do It Again' on the radio, that was the greatest thing that had ever happened. After that, it was all downhill.
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I have to stand up for myself... I learned something that I could and should stand up for myself, and he learned something, which was she will stand up for herself.
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Fashion is more about feel than science.
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I wasn't bullied in high school, I was just ignored.
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This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.
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A book is a souvenir of an idea.
