Seth Godin Quotes
It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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New Yorkers - the people are so honest. If you're sucking on stage, they'll let you know.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
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I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
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I give away thousands of paintings for free.
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Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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My general taste is towards the melancholy.
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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. (23 February 1940)
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There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.
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I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not have enough time for my books.
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I have talked to people across the country struggling in the face of an altered climate. New Jersey homeowners are trying to rebuild after Superstorm Sandy. Miami government officials are trying to plan for rising seas and flooded streets. California farmers are trying to make it through the state's worst drought on record.
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My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.
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My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.
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It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.
