Seth Godin Quotes
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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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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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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Because traumatized people often have trouble sensing what is going on in their bodies, they lack a nuanced response to frustration. They either react to stress by becoming “spaced out” or with excessive anger. Whatever their response, they often can’t tell what is upsetting them. This failure to be in touch with their bodies contributes to their well-documented lack of self-protection and high rates of revictimization23 and also to their remarkable difficulties feeling pleasure, sensuality, and having a sense of meaning. People with alexithymia can get better only by learning to recognize the relationship between their physical sensations and their emotions, much as colorblind people can only enter the world of color by learning to distinguish and appreciate shades of gray.
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So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.
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I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.
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If one of us falls, we all fall.
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Surprise comes from defying expectations.
