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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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• The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have been taking the knock for some time and that's affecting people.

  Lucy Powell

  Real, Impact, People

  "Economic bail-out aims to restore confidence for small firms and savers" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough value to get someone's movie made if you attach yourself to it, you have to be very thoughtful and have to plan. When you're starting out, you're willing to do anything.

  Chris Pratt

  Thoughtful, Lines, Starting Out

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

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• The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Country, Taken, Levels

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• I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.

  Robert Redford

  Play, Bars, Entertainers

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• Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

  Robert Redford

  Hollywood, Down And, Firsts

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• All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It's a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.

  Rene Redzepi

  Beach, Jobs, Believe

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

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• If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years.

  Kid Rock

  Country, Nashville, Years

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Apr 03, 2014

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• I'm starting to find out that a lot of people that you wouldn't think listen to me really do.

  ASAP Rocky

  Thinking, People, Listen To Me

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• The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

  Bill Rodgers

  Sports, New York, Giants

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• I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Player, Copies

  FaceBook post by Dennis Rodman from Jul 28, 2016

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• Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

  Will Rogers

  Military, War, Fall

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

  Henry Rollins

  Years, People, Lucky

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• So what 'Twilight' does is show how women/girls can drive box office and they can support a tent pole movie. They're an extremely passionate fan base. This coincided with the 13 year old boys starting to stay home and play video games and work on their home media stuff. They're no longer going to theaters in droves.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Girl, Twilight, Home

  "A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series". Interview with Melissa Rosenberg, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2012.

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• We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

  Paul Ryan

  Feet, People, Safety

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• After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.

  Jerry Saltz

  Years, Land, Gnarly

  New York Volume 43, Issues 14-21, New York Magazine Company, p. 1, 2010.

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• There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Taken, Sunset

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

  Rob Sheffield

  Baseball, Race, President

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• I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of memorizing their lines, and the whole process of starting to work with the other actors and the director, and doing rehearsals, and going to the location, and going through wardrobe.

  Pauly Shore

  Reading, Missing, Directors

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 21, 2010.

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• Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Thinking, Stopping, Term

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• You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.

  Russell Simmons

  America, People, Diversity

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• It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

  Peter Singer

  Home, Iraq, America

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• My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

  Wilbur Smith

  Real, World, Firsts

  "Wilbur Smith, author - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2013.

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• I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Mean, Done, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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