Brian Tracy Quotes
Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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I'm the blackest villain of all time.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
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I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.
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I was very aware of the fact that I was a young designer, and I didn't want to fall into the trap of 'mother of the bride' dressing and 'occasion-wear.' I wanted to make sure that girls my age were wearing it and that there was a cool factor to my clothes.
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Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
