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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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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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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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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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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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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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It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
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So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.
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They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read.
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I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere.
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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.
