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• There is an entitlement that is starting to emerge that I think is unhealthy for people and unhealthy for a country. ... I think the only thing that can be 'below you' is to not have a job.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

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• Achieving your vision doesn't mean you've reached the end of the line. It simply means that you've come to a new starting place.

  Nido R Qubein

  Mean, Vision, New Start

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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• I've learned that asking ourselves not just what we want to be, but who we want to be is important at every stage of our lives, not just when we're starting out in the world. That's because in a way, we're starting out fresh in the world every single day.

  Maria Shriver

  Important, Asking, World

  Maria Shriver (2008). “Just Who Will You Be?: Big Question. Little Book. Answer Within.”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• So a Holocaust-denying, virulently anti-Semitic, aspiring genocidist, on the verge of acquiring weapons of the apocalypse, believes that the end is not only near but nearer than the next American presidential election. (Pity the Democrats. They cannot catch a break.) This kind of man would have, to put it gently, less inhibition about starting Armageddon than a normal person.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Men, Holocaust

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• Once you discover what your attitude is, or isn't, you'll have a starting point and an understanding of how to move forward.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Attitude, Moving, Understanding

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 2017

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• The NBA definitely has some trendsetters that stay up on the latest fashion, but I think you're starting to see guys like myself and others get some much-deserved respect in the style department.

  Cam Newton

  Fashion, Thinking, Nba

  "Cam Newton Wants to Teach You How to Wear a Sweater". Interview with Nic Screws, www.bloomberg.com. December 29, 2015.

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• Just like the NBA, the NFL has guys that can pull off multiple looks, ranging from street style to more dapper, buttoned-up looks, and people are starting to notice.

  Cam Newton

  Nfl, Nba, People

  "Cam Newton Wants to Teach You How to Wear a Sweater". Interview with Nic Screws, www.bloomberg.com. December 29, 2015.

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• Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Home, Space, Flying

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• My parents took me to shows starting when I was a very little kid. I remember seeing Henry IV at the Shakespeare Theatre in DC and our neighbor, who was playing Banquo, winked at me during the curtain call. I remember thinking "he can SEE ME?!" I was hooked from then. I wanted to be part of the place where you can escape the world, and also wink at it.

  Nick Blaemire

  Kids, Thinking, Parent

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I've never read a book [ Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon] like it before. Big and sprawling with a million points of view, including sea creatures. It's about an alien invasion that starts in Lagos, Nigeria but, really, that's just the starting point.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Book, Views, Sea

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When starting a new business, people get blinders on. They have an idea, they stick to the idea, but they don't test it or check with their potential audience to see if this is a good idea. It happens all the time. Talk to your customers, see what they like and what you can change or not change.

  JJ Ramberg

  Ideas, People, Tests

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• I talked with people starting up in the middle of the recession and employees, and supplies and office space were cheap. As far as companies that are already in existence, many became more creative with how they spent their money. A lot of them stopped wasting money that they didn't know they were wasting after they looked hard at their businesses. Some had to change business models because of the economy. Their market didn't exist or wasn't as big anymore.

  JJ Ramberg

  Office Space, Starting Up, People

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• Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.

  Matthea Harvey

  Writing, Starting Out, Form

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• A lot of the earliest Instagram celebrities took really beautiful photos. But you're starting to see a change where it's not about beauty; it's about the story that you tell.

  Kevin Systrom

  Beautiful, Stories, Instagram

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar.

  Birdy

  Guitar, Play, Violin

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• When I was starting out there was no Internet, there wasn't this sense that you could be connected to other writers around the world. And that created a kind of innocence, or parochial quality, even in NYC.

  Dani Shapiro

  Nyc, Quality, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

  Billy Collins

  Moving, Simple, Progress

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Thinking, Civilization, Scratches

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Sex is a good starting point for everything.

  Lauren Groff

  Sex, Starting Point

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that. It goes deeper than that. But it's not a lie. It's a starting point.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Lying, Party, Dancing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I present the thing we're going to do as a simple starting point. They all know it's an art piece and that it's all going to be recorded. And I have never had an experience where one of these men tried to take advantage of the situation. If they were guilty of anything it was of being lonely. It was never that they were violent or dangerous.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Lonely, Art, Simple

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.

  Jasper Fforde

  Years, People, Momentum

  An Interview with Jasper Fforde by Simone Swink, www.bookbrowse.com. 2005.

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• As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book.

  Rebecca Miller

  Book, World, Feels

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What's really interesting, though, is that some people in the Messirya are starting to see Darfuri rebels - so non-Arab, [from the] Justice and Equality Movement - have moved over into Southern Kordofan, which is supposed to be a Messirya stronghold, and started recruiting Messirya to go and fight against the Khartoum government in Darfur. Just another example of how everything in Sudan is interlinked.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Fighting, Government, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's a long history in the Middle East of "bread intifadas," starting with 1977 in Egypt, when Anwar Sadat tried to lift bread subsidies. People rebelled and poured into Tahrir Square, shouting slogans against the government just like they did earlier this year. Sadat learned his lesson and kept bread subsidies in place, and so did a host of other Middle Eastern dictators - many of whom were propped up for years by the West, partly through subsidized American wheat.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Government, Egypt, Years

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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