Simon Sinek Quotes
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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I've never played a character that would sing.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.
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I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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I think if I'd ever had any skeletons in the closet, they'd have been out a long time ago.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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I still want what I've always wanted ... to be the best person I can be.
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Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.
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For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.
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We must be clear about where we’re going if we want anyone to help us get there.
