Brian Tracy Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I'm really going to miss me.
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Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
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This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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Organizations, whether they are nonprofits or enterprise, need to be aware that nation-states are coming after them for political espionage, economic espionage, or destructive attacks.
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Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?
