Seth Godin Quotes
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I make sure I eat well without depriving myself of the things that I love: a cheeseburger and fries, creamy white-truffle pasta, bowls of ice cream. Everything in moderation, but I indulge at least three times a week.
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You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
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The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.
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The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.
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We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.
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I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.
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I do quite naughty things now. I do like to be a bit sexy.
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To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.
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Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.
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I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.
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We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.
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Clamour can be stifled, but how avenge oneself on silence?
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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
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Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.
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People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.
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Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.
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Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
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The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on this matter; it was forced by outside pressure to reform. To be sure, the Protestant churches were no better in this regard; it is simply that they had less time - only two or three centuries - to engage in the torching of witches. After all, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, stated quite correctly that disbelief in witches meant a disbelief in the Bible.
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A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone.
