Brian Tracy Quotes
All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.
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I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out.
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Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.
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We have the deepest and most liquid capital markets in the world.
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The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.
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All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.
