Brian Tracy Quotes
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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I received free health care.
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost your 401(k), you're angry. And if your brother-in-law has lost one of those you're angry still. And when you're angry you take it out on people who are in office. Which is natural.
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I'm a bit of a Libertarian.
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Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.
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When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.
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The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.
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Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still.
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All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.
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I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.
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If I'm not working, I don't feel complete.
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Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
