Seth Godin Quotes
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
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I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
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I'm a huge 'Call of Duty' fan, 'Minecraft' and all those kinds of video games. I'm constantly playing video games every day.
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I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.
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There is a premium on conformity, and on silence. Enthusiasm is frowned upon, since it is likely to be noisy. The Admiral had caught a few kids who came to school before class, eager to practice on the typewriters. He issued a manifesto forbidding any students in the building before 8:20 or after 3:00—outside of school hours, students are "unauthorized." They are not allowed to remain in a classroom unsupervised by a teacher. They are not allowed to linger in the corridors. They are not allowed to speak without raising a hand. They are not allowed to feel too strongly or to laugh too loudly. Yesterday, for example, we were discussing "The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars/ But in ourselves that we are underlings." I had been trying to relate Julius Caesar to their own experiences. Is this true? I asked. Are we really masters of our fate? Is there such a thing as luck? A small boy in the first row, waving his hand frantically: "Oh, call on me, please, please call on me!" was propelled by the momentum of his exuberant arm smack out of his seat and fell on the floor. Wild laughter. Enter McHabe. That afternoon, in my letter-box, it had come to his attention that my "control of the class lacked control.
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An actor works with their soul and their thought.
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Don't borrow trouble. The interest is too high.
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The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.
