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• Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from... people starting over completely, saying goodbye to their lives before... it never ends in terms of story opportunities.

  Mary McCormack

  Goodbye, Opportunity, People

  "In Plain Sight Mary Mccormack & Fred Weller Interview". Interview with Lena Lamoray, lenalamoray.com. April 28, 2011.

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• A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather/from the air like a cherished possession.

  Edward Hirsch

  Basketball, Kissing, Men

  Edward Hirsch (2011). “The Living Fire”, p.51, Knopf

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• The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the initiatic itinerary leads the being first to extinction in the divine Unity, which abolishes all perception of created things. But spiritual realization, if it is complete, arrives afterwards at the "second station of separation" where the being perceives simultaneously the one in the multiple and the multiple in the one.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Spiritual, Men, Unity

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• The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Believe, Color

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• ...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Hard Work, Science, Luck

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• The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given substance is an invariable quantity-i.e., one independent of the circumstances accompanying the combustion-from which it is more specifically concluded that the chemical effect of the combustible materials undergoes no quantitative change even as a result of the vital process, or that the living organism, with all its mysteries and marvels, is not capable of generating heat out of nothing.

  Robert Mayer

  Life, Change, Independent

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• In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.

  Alexander Fleming

  Science, Discovery, Deep Thought

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• I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

  Candace Parker

  Daughter, Mother, Men

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• I grew up having to care what people think; it was part of my job.I've been built up and torn down, built up and torn down. It's been difficult to tune people out, especially in the las few years. Now i'm starting to care more about me and not what everybody else thinks.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

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• When I was about 14 or 15, and running in a pretty muddy cross country race, one of my shoes stuck in the mud and came off. Boy, was I wild. To think that I had trained hard for this race and didn't do up my shoelace tightly enough! I really got aggressive with myself, and I found myself starting to pass a lot of runners. As it turned out, I improved something like twenty places in that one race. But I never did get my shoe back.

  Robert de Castella

  Country, Running, Boys

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• It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be. Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift. I think one of the most important things is starting off the day forgiving others and forgiving yourself. You learn from your mistakes, but I don't think you have to drag them back into today.

  Joel Osteen

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Mistake

  "Joel Osteen on Power of Prayer, Forgiveness, Trusting in God's Timetable". Interview with Melissa Barnhart, www.christianpost.com. September 24, 2013.

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• One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

  Johannes Brahms

  Life And Love, Finishing, Pieces

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• I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Thinking, Attention

  "My dream was, and still is, to be a writer: Paulo Coelho". Interview with Tanu Talwar, zeenews.india.com. July 6, 2009.

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• If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Nfl, Finishing

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• I think I'm starting to figure out when I need to get rid of it and when I don't need to.

  Robert Griffin III

  Football, Thinking, Nfl

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• The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.

  Kevin Hart

  Sports, Tweed, Tarot

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• I remember thinking, "Far out, I can't believe this," when I started riding waves. Then I was starting to imagine where it could take me.

  Mark Occhilupo

  Sports, Believe, Thinking

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• Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.

  David Gilmour

  Running, Monday, Lying

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• The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.

  Confucius

  Strong, Giving Up, Enough

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• Starting anything is a roller coaster with the highest highs and lowest lows.

  Jack Dorsey

  Smart, Roller Coaster, Coasters

  "10 Smart Quotes From 'Innovation Uncensored' Conference" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Ethical Principles, Views

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

  John Mortimer

  Voice, Starting Out, Panic

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• I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I heard the rock say, 'You have the answers. You are your teacher.' I thought I was having an auditory hallucination.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Teacher, Rocks, Answers

  "Gwyneth Unveiled". Interview with Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over to my grandmother, who I lived with while I went to school. I was clean and finally starting to figure myself out. I can only say that now without laughing. I was still very out of my own place, and I didn't even know what that place was. All I knew was that I could write music, that I had no idea what that could mean and that I was still surrounded by people I couldn't relate to. I hadn't found my tribe yet.

  Corey Taylor

  Mother, Giving Up, Writing

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