Simon Sinek Quotes
Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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Vampires are super sexy.
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.
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If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.
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British people are surprised that I'm British!
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When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to delete something in the same way, where it's like it was never there.
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'Portlandia' is the most fun show. When I get a breakdown of what the arc of the story is going to be, I could never in my wildest dreams anticipate the direction.
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We allow ourselves to unclench when we're home with our families, which is one of the truly wonderful advantages of human intimacy.
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Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that.
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I don't know why people don't paint more warthogs. Warthogs are fantastic. They have the most marvelous faces, like cracked mud with tusks. And the eyelashes! Like many otherwise hideous animals, they have truly spectacular eyelashes. But nooo, it's always the charismatic mammals, like foxes and wolves and tigers. Have you ever smelled a fox? Believe me, the warthog produces a light, airy fragrance suitable for the home or office compared to a fox. Um. What was I saying again?
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You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.
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My wife's an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you're really sensitive, you really care what people think, you have a low threshold for criticism.
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Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
