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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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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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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It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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Follow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don't believe it, but it's true.
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The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.
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The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.
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All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.
