Seth Godin Quotes
I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
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The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
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If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.
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I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
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I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.
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I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
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It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
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My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
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I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
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My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.
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Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
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I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead.
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I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.
