Simon Sinek Quotes
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Do you remember campaigns like 'Keep America beautiful'? What about 'Buckle up'? I believe we need an approach like this to attack obesity. Let's be a good industry that does 100% of what it possibly can - not grudgingly, but willingly.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
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My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun, but because I want to do it so much, they agreed and supported me.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
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Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
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Everyone covering 'Stage Beauty' asks me: 'What's it like to wear a dress?'
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Kids at a certain age don't necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world.
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In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.
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I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
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You don't love hockey for the scores, you love hockey for the fights, right?
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It's always my goal to raise the bar with each record I put out.
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I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.
