Opening Quotes

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  Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Workout, Thoughtful

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.421, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

  Carl Sandburg

  Doors, Closing Up, Poetry

  Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered"

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• Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Inspirational, Photography, Heart

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• Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Laughter, Patriotic

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  You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Birthday, Sports, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  Barbara Bush

  Memorable, Generosity, Giving

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• One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Risk, Suffering, Doe

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• The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

  Arthur Koestler

  Carpe Diem, Perfection, Principles

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Doors

  Song: Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie

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• If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  Play, Ideas, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mind, Literature, Mouths

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• Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Wine, Knowing

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• Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

  Billy Sunday

  Doors, Temptation, Devil

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• The Internet is a whole new world opening up.

  Babyface

  Opening Up, World, Internet

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• Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

  Gene Ween

  Ninety Nine, Band, Stink

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• We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Moving On, Moving Forward

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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• They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93.

  Mary Hart

  Deals, Knows

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• There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

  Hanoi Hannah

  Doors, World, Policy

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• Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Talking, House

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

  Bob Ney

  Jobs, Oil, Wildlife

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• Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

  Anthony Sampson

  Egyptian, Liable, Monarchy

  Anthony Sampson (1962). “Anatomy of Britain”, London : Hodder and Stoughton

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• The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Firsts, Trilogies, Bayou

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• In fact, I don't think I'll ever make anything that will feel as divinely dropped in my lap as the opening of 'Wall-E.'

  Andrew Stanton

  Wall, Thinking, Lap

  "Second-Act Twist". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.

  George Clooney

  Weekend, Lucky, Proud

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• The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

  Milton Friedman

  Freedom, Government, Opening Up

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