Starting Quotes - Page 19

• I thought about starting a novella club because it seemed less ambitious.

  Lena Dunham

  Ambitious, Clubs

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make myself feel uncomfortable. I think if you're starting to feel uncomfortable with something when you're writing it, that's the reason really to push on with it.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Thinking, Kind

  Source: gapersblock.com

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• The manufacturing industry is starting to press for some kind of national healthcare. Now it's beginning to put it on the agenda. It doesn't matter if the population wants it. What 90% of the population wants would be kind of irrelevant. But if part of the concentration of corporate capital that basically runs the country - another thing we're not allowed to say but it's obvious - if part of that sector becomes in favor then the issue moves onto the political agenda.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Country, Moving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Science is starting to show that our brains are less able to detect calories in liquids. So, people in the know, including food industry executives, when they run into health trouble, the first thing they do is cut calories out of all the liquids that they drink as a way of maintaining their weight.

  Michael Moss

  Running, Cutting, People

  "Salt Sugar Fat: NY Times Reporter Michael Moss on How the Food Giants Hooked America on Junk Food". www.democracynow.org. March 1, 2013.

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• What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is here, and the people have this sentiment and this political power. They feel that they can do it, and it's still there. At the same time, we don't know what is going to happen. So to be very quick by saying, "Oh, revolutions and Arab Spring," and - you know, what I'm advocating is to take a cautious optimism as the starting point of our analysis and to look at what is happening.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spring, Optimism, People

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• If you're a musician, you create what you love and hope other people love it as well. Amongst musicians, the starting point is what they love, and then they bring people to them. As a comedian, you have to say something that people relate to, or nobody laughs. As an actor, you have to perform the character in the way that people relate to.

  John Bishop

  Character, Laughing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Curiosity is the starting point for great science.

  Philip Kotler

  Curiosity, Great Science, Starting Point

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. May 10, 2015.

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• Kids should be taught about sex, sex hygiene and contraceptive methods starting in the sixth grade, and whenever they want to try it, they should be allowed to go at it without supervision or restriction -in their parents' bedroom, on the grass in a park, in a motel; it doesn't matter, as long as the setting is private and pleasant. If we did all this, our kids would grow up into happier, healthier human beings. But we won't, of course. It would make too much sense.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sex, Growing Up, Kids

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• When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

  Francesca Annis

  Sharks, Agents, Starting Out

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• The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation.

  Laurence Boldt

  Fear, Acceptance, Artist

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.139, Penguin

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• There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

  Prince Philip

  Twenties, Done, Doing Nothing

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• That’s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.

  Steven Kotler

  People, Entrepreneur, Groups

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• It started kind of slow, but we got back into it, bad as you might not want to. You've got to get some type of enthusiasm going out there. It's kind of kicking in as a reality. People only grieve for so long, but I'm starting to understand it.

  Jonas Jennings

  Reality, Grieving, Long

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• We see baptism as the starting point in our journey of discipleship. Our daily walk with Jesus Christ leads to peace and purpose in this life and profound joy and eternal salvation in the world to come.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Journey, Profound

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• The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45 [Hayek provided historical background up to page 45; after that came his theoretical model], and yet it remains a book of some interest, which is likely to leave its mark on the mind of the reader. It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in bedlam.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mistake, Book, Historical

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: The general theory and after: pt. 1, Preparation”

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• I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it.

  Mike Pence

  Children, Wall, White

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

  Rick Perry

  School, College, Texas

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• When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Eggs, Portraits

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• I limbered up just a little before entering the stadium, and even so I felt a twinge in my thigh, no doubt the fruit of my imagination. And I went back to the massage room so that my faithful Morizot could take the trouble off my muscles. This soothed me considerably and I thought I was back to a normal state until somebody summoned me to the starting line. It was like feeling a blade go through my flesh.

  Jules Ladoumegue

  Running, Imagination, Feelings

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• I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

  Ben Gibbard

  Want, Habit, Best Of Me

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• A professor was telling students about his colleagues class. Students in the other class had taken to tossing erasers at the clock. Each precise hit caused it to jump ahead one minute. Before class one morning they succeeded in advancing the clock by ten minutes. Since the new time indicated that the professor was beyond the accepted starting time, the class left. The professor never said a word about the incident. However, he presented the class with a killer of a final exam. As the students labored to finish in the allotted time, the professor amused himself by tossing erasers at the clock.

  Vicki Davis

  Time, Morning, Taken

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• At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.

  M. J. Ryan

  Gratitude, Joy, Soul

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• As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I
  have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like,
  'Oh my goodness gracious — that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing which
  is cool.

  Jordin Sparks

  Moving, Kids, People

  "Jordin Sparks Shares Her Secrets!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I'm definitely going to bounce back, I don't doubt that one bit. The thing about this is you have to expect that when you're a back my age. You can't feel slighted if someone says that because it's a reality that it's abnormal for a guy my age to still be starting in the NFL. I can accept that. I still understand what the truth is to me, and that's what I believe. I don't really care what people say.

  Curtis Martin

  Believe, Reality, Nfl

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• We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.

  Brendan Bayliss

  Song, Fun, Writing

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