Seth Godin Quotes

We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.

Seth Godin

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• I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Look
  • Got

• We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Fell

• I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Women
  • Smile
  • Aliens

• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Fear

• I am someone who isn't always perfect.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Perfect

• Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

  

  Ice T
  • Same
  • New York
  • Group

• I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Condition
  • Again
  • Begin

• Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Know
  • Fight

• I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Always
  • Years
  • Working

• I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Technology
  • Focus
  • Right

• 'Down we go,' said Paddy. 'Now pray to Saint Anthony if you be a good Catholic-''I'm not,' snapped Fay, 'and if you'll give more mind to the boat and less to religion we’ll gain by it.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Catholic

• Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Children

• 'I don’t trust you.''Of course you don’t. I know I wouldn’t. And I’m not asking you to. I’m not putting you in a situation in which your trust of me is even remotely relevant. I’m just pointing a gun to your head and giving you orders.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Giving
  • Trust
  • Gun

• My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Parents

• I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• All of my music is honest.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music

• I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school holidays, and I was bored, and I thought I just wanted to do something to occupy myself instead of asking, 'What can I do, mum? Entertain me.' I started, and it really just took over, and I realised, 'Wow, this is an amazing experience.'

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • Writing
  • School
  • Experience

• To me, sound is a crucial component to, really, any moviegoing experience, but particularly with suspense films or thrillers. I think you need the audience to become subtly really attuned to the soundscape in, like, this uncomfortable way.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Experience

• There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Heaven

• There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of them that they interviewed, probably six or seven little boys, and there was something about Mendel. I just loved his little face. I loved the energy of Mendel.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Energy
  • Interviewed

• The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be.

  

  Paul G. Tremblay
  • Truth
  • Story
  • Horror

• We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Humanity
  • Motivational