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"I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good."
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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end."
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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."
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"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."
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"Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62."
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"A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger."
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"We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning."
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"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."
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"I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good."
Beginning

"One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life."
Family

"Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse."
Effort

"There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened."
Life

"And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it."
Age

"If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers."
Control

"If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem."
Being

"I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity."
Respect

"To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win."
Sports

"With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential."
Sports
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