Simon Sinek Quotes
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I like sitting close to windows.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
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People mistake their love of the technology for it being a solution. Social media is the problem, not the solution, in crisis management. It's a problem if you use it to communicate in areas where you're dealing with incredibly intense emotions and very deep conflicts.
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Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
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There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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True love is when both people think they have the better half of the deal.
