Seth Godin Quotes
The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
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Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.
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I do not believe in eating fish hot. People always insist on hot fish, but that leaves it dried out.
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The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.
