Brian Tracy Quotes
Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
Quotes to Explore
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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When I started working on 'Battlestar Galactica' in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a marine for my character Lee 'Apollo' Adama. So I did. But now I have a problem with suits, because I'm 5 ft. 9 in. with a 40 inch chest and a 31 inch waist, so I'm rather too big for that very tailored British look, and they always have to be altered.
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I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.
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I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '
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They've created ISIS. Hillary Clinton created ISIS with Obama; created with Obama. But I love predicting because you know, ultimately, you need somebody with vision.
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Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.
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Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.
