Brian Tracy Quotes
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
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I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
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Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.
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Everything is humanities. The sciences are a form of the humanities. They involve traditions of inquiry; they involve social engagement with ideas. They do not happen with a naked brain going out and encountering a nonhuman world. And the better we understand ourselves, the better we can do science, as well. So I don't see them - the sciences and the humanities - as being at all different.
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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The key to success is to develop a winning edge.
