Simon Sinek Quotes
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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These Millennials are volunteering more; they're smarter than ever.
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I've played sports and been active my whole life.
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People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
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When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos.
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Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,Both the great vulgar and the small.
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My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.
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I didn't have a father to deal with about boyfriends. I didn't have a father to show me how a man and woman relate in a family setting. Therefore, I have given over my life to mentoring young people. I'm adamant about young people who have been denied a father/daughter relationship.
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Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.
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If you love television and you love news, CNN is the perfect place to be.
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Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.
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This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me.
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I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
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Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.
