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“They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.”

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Author:Teena Marie

“You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.”

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Author:David Naughton

“I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.”

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Author:Jamie Oliver

“I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It's easier for me, if I'm starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren't mine just so it frees me up not to worry about it so much.”

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Author:Greg Laswell

“I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.”

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Author:Collin Peterson

“I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.”

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Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.”

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Author:John Podesta

“I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary.”

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Author:Paula Patton

“If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.”

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Author:Rob Portman

“I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.”

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Author:David O. Russell

“Don't take too much advice.”

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Author:Ben Silbermann

“I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.”

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Author:Ben Silbermann

“If you look not just at the Arab spring, but at what I call the youth spring that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.”

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Author:Shane Smith

“I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!”

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Author:Julian Lennon

“People are generally badly advised when they're starting out in the creative field.”

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Author:Julian Lennon

“I followed someone who had very large shoes. He had very large shoes. Mr. J. R. D. Tata. He was a legend in the Indian business community. He had been at the helm of the Tata organization for 50 years. You were almost starting to think he was going to be there forever.”

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Author:Ratan Tata

“I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.”

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Author:Tinie Tempah

“Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.”

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Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.”

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Author:Alan Vega

“When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.”

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Author:James Franco

“The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.”

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Author:Alexander Wang

“The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.”

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Author:Dan Wheldon

“You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble.”

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Author:Roy Yamaguchi

“People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.”

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Author:Laura Poitras

“Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.”

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Author:Jay-Z

“Death will be so quick to swoop on you; Gather merit till that moment comes! Wait till then to banish laziness? Then there'll be no time, what will you do? "This I have not done. And this I'm only starting. And this - I'm only halfway through ..." Then is the sudden coming of the Lord of Death, And oh, the thought 'Alas, I'm finished.'”

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Author:Shantideva

“When what has been created in time according to the temporal order has reached maturity, it ceases from natural growth. But when what has been brought about by the knowledge of God through the practice of the virtues has reached maturity, it starts to grow anew. For the end of one stage constitutes the starting point of the next.”

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Author:Maximus the Confessor

“To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.”

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Author:NeNe Leakes

“I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the ultimate reality.”

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Author:Robert Lanza

“You're starting to see new record companies and business models taking shape, but it takes time.”

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Author:Simon Le Bon

“Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.”

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Author:Ted Lindsay

“I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.”

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Author:David Morrissey

“I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!”

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Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.”

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Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.”

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Book:Assessment and Control of Software Risks

Source: Assessment and Control of Software Risks

“I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

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Author:Wanda Sykes

“I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.”

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Author:Chris Cornell

“I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.”

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Author:Brendan Fraser

“Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or enabling us to store and retrieve our medical records online, the Internet is starting to show the promise it has to transform the way people interact with and improve their own health and wellness.”

“Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.”

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Book:By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses

Source: By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses

“I'm not going to change who I am just because people think it's weird. The only way I'm going to have a great season is by starting out happy and balanced and continuing to be me. It might be unconventional, but to feel good about life I need to have some adventure.”

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Author:Daniel Norris

“Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming.”

“Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.”

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Author:Daley Thompson

“Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.”

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Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point: Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days.”

Source: Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking

“I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.”

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Author:Charles Kimbrough

“When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.”

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Author:Charles Kimbrough

“Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.”

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Author:Jesse Schell

“I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.”

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Author:Bill Viola

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