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Beginning Quotes

"I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together."

"I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together."

Dorothy Fields, American Musician

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"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."

"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."

John Corigliano, American Composer

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"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."

Andre Gide, French Novelist

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"The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour."

"The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour."

Dan Castellaneta, American Actor

Beginning, Effort, Now, Voice

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"Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification."

"Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification."

John Donne, British Poet

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"Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever."

"Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever."

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian Writer

Beginning, Spiritual

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"Before beginning, plan carefully."

"Before beginning, plan carefully."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway."

"Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway."

Minoru Yamasaki, American Architect

Beginning, Being, Building, Sense

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"Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again."

"Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again."

Lou Gramm, American Musician

Beginning, Will

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"I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come."

"I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come."

Pat Buckley, Irish Clergyman

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"I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform."

"I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform."

Miguel de Icaza, Mexican Scientist

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"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."

"Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible."

Norman Rockwell, American Artist

Beginning, Right

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"So many have been growing with us from the very beginning of our career. Others are brand new to us."

Eydie Gorme, American Musician

Beginning, Career

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"You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do."

"You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do."

Liz Smith, American Journalist

Beginning, Reputation

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"I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs."

"I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs."

Gene Ween, American Musician

Beginning, End, Right, Songs

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"I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go."

"I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go."

Orlando Bloom, English Actor

Beginning, Career, Learning

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"To begin, begin."

"To begin, begin."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

Beginning, Action, Simplicity, Courage

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"As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning."

"As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning."

Herodotus, Greek Historian

Beginning, End, Old

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"Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff."

"Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff."

Abhysheq Shukla, Indian Author

Beginning, Action, Opportunity, Optimism

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"I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today."

"I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today."

Carly Fiorina, American Businessman

Beginning, End, Today

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"I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end."

"I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end."

Diane Sawyer, American Journalist

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"It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear."

"It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear."

C. L. R. James, British Journalist

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"The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1."

"The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1."

Eric S. Raymond, American Author

Beginning, Beginnings, Culture, First, Today

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"I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear."

"I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear."

John Corigliano, American Composer

Beginning, Students

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"They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning."

"They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning."

Della Reese, American Musician

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"In the beginning, there were Real Programmers."

"In the beginning, there were Real Programmers."

Eric S. Raymond, American Author

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"Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub."

"Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub."

Mary Austin, American Writer

Beginning, End, Moon

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"Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else."

"Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

Beginning, Beginnings, Dictatorship, First, Nation

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"I made theater very important in the beginning of my career."

"I made theater very important in the beginning of my career."

Marcello Mastroianni, Italian Actor

Beginning, Career, Theater

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"I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?"

"I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?"

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Beginning, Will

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"A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same."

"A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same."

Todd Solondz, American Writer

Beginning, End, Word

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"Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way."

"Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way."

Benoit Mandelbrot, French Mathematician

Beginning, Mathematicians, Rest

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"They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away."

"They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away."

George Jackson, American Activist

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"In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along."

"In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along."

Fred Ward, American Actor

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"Everything that has a beginning comes to an end."

"Everything that has a beginning comes to an end."

Marcus Fabius Quintilian, Roman Philosopher

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"I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career."

"I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career."

William Joyce, American Author

Beginning, Career, Fact, Literary

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"A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral."

"A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral."

Maynard James Keenan, American Musician

Beginning, End, Eternity, Reflection

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"Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning."

"Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning."

Rita Coolidge, American Musician

Beginning, Jazz

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"Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple."

"Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple."

Crystal Chappell, American Actress

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"I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation."

"I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation."

Scott McClellan, American Politician

Beginning, Conversation, President, Today

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"Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo."

"Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo."

Jules Shear, American Musician

Beginning, Guitar, Songs

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"From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman."

"From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman."

Nina Simone, American Musician

Beginning, Man, Woman

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"We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation."

"We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation."

Lakshmi Mittal, Indian Industrialist

Beginning, Benefits

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"For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start."

"For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start."

George Stevens, American Director

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"Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk."

"Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk."

Roy Ayers, English Musician

Beginning, End, Musicians, Song

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"I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production."

"I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production."

Guy Laliberte, Canadian Businessman

Beginning, Production

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"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

Demosthenes, Greek Statesman

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"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."

"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."

Jimmy Smith, American Musician

Beginning, Challenge, Months

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"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."

"That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house."

Anne McCaffrey, American Author

Beginning, Career

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"We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body."

"We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body."

Ray Kurzweil, American Inventor

Beginning, Body, Computer

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