Brian Tracy Quotes
Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
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Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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My work... is my legacy.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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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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Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
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The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.
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I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.
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Workers' rights are under attack across the country.
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Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.
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Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
