Brian Tracy Quotes
Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I don't need any nicknames.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.
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Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.
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Leaders inspire us because they bring out the best in us.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity.
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Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.
