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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You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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A common argument from the mouths of capitalist spokespeople, in the ideological struggle against socialism, is that socialism, or the period of building socialism into which we have entered, is characterized by the abolition of the individual for the sake of the state.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
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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.
