Simon Sinek Quotes
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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'Star Trek' put sci-fi on the map and changed television, and 'Battlestar' has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldn't normally watch sci-fi.
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When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.
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Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.
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A fair trial would have been no trial at all.
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I don't know people who don't say 'boy, the government is working better now.'
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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
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I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear me, they began to look at me. Then they began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, 'softly with feeling.' The noise dropped to a hum; the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience -- softly, with feeling.
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Be the leader you wish you had.
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I can't get myself when I'm not punctual. If I'm late for an appointment, even a bit, I don't feel good for a whole day.
