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"I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done."
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"Everyone has to start somewhere. So get out there and start."
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"Everything started as nothing."
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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."
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"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."
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"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
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"We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place."
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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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"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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"I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve."
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"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
Anthropology

"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
Anthropology

"I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style."
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"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
People

"I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means."
Science

"My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things."
People

"Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him."
People

"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
Science
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