Seth Godin Quotes
If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.
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I do loads of squats with weights. It's great for your bum and legs.
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I don't even think my children are aware of what I've done. When somebody will ask me for my autograph, Spenser-Margaret will say, 'You must watch 'Charlie's Angels.' You know, that's like all I've done to them.
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People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
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I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
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I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day. That's why I'm trying to enjoy it so much.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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Partir, c'est mourir un peu... mais mourir, c'est partir beaucoup.
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I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
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I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?
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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
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I'm honored to be recognized among generations of astronauts who were at the forefront of exploring our universe for the benefit of humankind.
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Football was my sport. I was fast. I was a free safety.
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Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.
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'Shadow Souls' pushes probably every border that you can.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
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If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse.
