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I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.


Tony Dungy

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TONY MCCOY When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussio...
TONY HAWK From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based so...
TONY CAMPOLO Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many th...
TONY FERNANDES I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out an...
TONY BENNETT Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone e...
TONY ABBOTT Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty...
TONY SNOW But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was M...
TONY KUSHNER How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material we...
TONY JUDT Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.
TONY FERNANDES I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. W...
TONY FERNANDES When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper t...
TONY FERNANDES I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are...
TONY ABBOTT We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
TONY ROBBINS I'm a Prada freak and I think they have great eyewear. Even though I don't need glasses, I u...
TONY VINCENT The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
TONY ROBBINS I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do a...
TONY DANZA The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a...
TONY KUSHNER I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During th...
TONY BENNETT To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the wor...
TONY ROBBINS The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure u...
TONY ROBBINS Sooner or later, we sell out for money.
TONY RANDALL Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's dee...
TONY ROBBINS The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
TONY ROBBINS What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple...
TONY CAMPOLO I go into it with the attitude that I'm not going to look at my leg, and as soon as they get the...
TONY STEWART Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the...
TONY ROBBINS We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
TONY ROBBINS If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
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