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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I want to understand everything so I can put myself in a position to be successful.
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
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I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me.
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We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in our lives.
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If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.
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Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!
