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Beginning Quotes
"When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks."
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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
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"In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here."
86
"But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire."
82
"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning."
66
"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms."
58
"Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl."
58
"I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years."
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"The journey has been incredible from its beginning."
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"Conflict is the beginning of consciousness."
51
"Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now."
50
"My gay audience has been with me from the beginning."
48
"I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s."
46
"I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had."
46
"Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine."
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"I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing."
44
"Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us."
44
"Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings."
42
"The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event."
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"The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure."
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"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."
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"From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity."
40
"Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well."
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"Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far."
38
"Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end."
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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis."
37
"I entered into Dawson's Creek to do a couple of episodes. They weren't sure about my role in the beginning, but then the chemistry kind of worked."
37
"All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning."
36
"We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning."
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"But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!"
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"They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?"
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