Brian Tracy Quotes
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.
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It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.
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I was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which is where J. Cole is from. I went up to Washington, D.C., where my mother moved, to stay with her, and then moved back to North Carolina to finish junior high and high school.
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One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise?
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Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.
