Brian Tracy Quotes
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.
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Home wasn't a pleasant place to live, growing up.
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The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
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Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.
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Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.
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Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!
