Seth Godin Quotes
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.
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I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.
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I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.
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Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.
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Blend is great for designers because it implements a lot of sophisticated behaviours, but for what I like to do, hand coding XAML is preferable, particularly because I have to publish it.
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What's my favorite thing about Seattle? It's Ho Ho's Restaurant.
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The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones.
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Obviously, the curiosity of the unknown is something you want to investigate. But I felt strong enough about this place and the Packers treated me fairly, so I didn't need to explore that. In the end, this is the place that I wanted to be.
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The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.
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My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
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The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.
