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“The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.”
“Ultimately, the issue is not whether you are pro- or anti-sports betting. You begin, from my standpoint, from the premise that it is going to continue to exist, and if it is going to continue to exist, should it be shoved underground, or should it be regulated?”
“To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.”
“Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.”
“Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.”
“Our visions begin with our desires.”
“Begin with another’s to end with your own.”
“Once companies begin to outsource, they never go back.”
“Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.”
“I don’t know anymore where I begin and Obama ends.”
“You can’t end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can’t begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.”
“I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.”
“Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.”
“I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.”
“I am not a big reader to begin with.”
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
“Humanity, you never had it to begin with.”
“American values don’t begin and end with destroyers and aircraft carriers.”
“Basically I was really modeling for fun, but it wasn’t ever something that I wanted to do to begin with.”
“Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.”
“Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.”
“I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.”
“Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.”
“In dreams begin responsibilities.”
“I can’t begin to describe the amount of crap I’ve taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.”
“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”
“To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.”
“Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.”
“To begin with, I don’t have any stage fright.”
“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
“Truths begin by a conflict with the police – and end by calling them in.”
“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.”
“If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.”
“I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.”
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
“We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.”
“After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.”
“Geographic boundaries really begin to disappear with the Internet.”
“The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.”
“Authors I’ve longed to write like – but realize I actually can’t even begin to – include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.”
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
“Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.”
“I can’t begin to try to articulate the competitive nature I possess.”
“Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.”
“Does everything in this life begin and end with Judy Blume? Perhaps.”
“A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.”
“Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let’s begin treating them that way.”
“My books always begin with a sentence and an image – not necessarily connected.”
“The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner.”
“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.”
“All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.”
“Valued companionships begin with a personal commitment to be an exemplary companion.”
“I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I’m just not there.”
“Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.”
“Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.”
“I didn’t actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.”
“Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.”
“There are two essential epochs in any enterprise – to begin, and to get done.”
“I write sentence to sentence. That’s the kind of writer I am. I don’t have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.”
“I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.”
“It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.”
“Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.”
“Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.”
“All of our anchors begin their shows with ‘Hello from Moscow.’”
“To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.”
“All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I’m concerned.”
“I begin by considering an effect.”
“Most of us can’t even begin to imagine.”
“Fixing our schools must begin with reforming the way we attract talent to teaching.”
“To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.”
“If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.”
“I’ve been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.”
“The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.”
“First of all, Asian representation hardly exists to begin with.”
“Every great story seems to begin with a snake.”
“I always begin to compose the melody first.”
“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.”
“To retire is to begin to die.”
“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”
“I vote Labour and can’t begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.”
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
“On Medicare, I would suggest ridding the system of fraud and bulk purchasing of prescription drugs, to begin with.”
“That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.”
“I’m not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.”
“As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they’ll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.”
“We will not know unless we begin.”
“Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.”
“Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.”
“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.”
“Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.”
“’Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.”
“Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it’s compounding a felony.”
“I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.”
“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”
“Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.”
“When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.”
“We shouldn’t think anyone needs a Ph.D. in advanced investing in order to begin to invest.”
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“We can always begin again.”
“To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.”
“Begin with the end in mind.”
“I’m a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.”
“It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.”
“If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I’d be embarrassed.”
“I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.”
“Arsenal was in a decline. We had to stop this and begin climbing.”
“Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.”
“Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.”
“Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.”
“In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they’d first thought.”
“I don’t begin a novel with a shopping list – the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.”
“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”
“To begin, begin.”
“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.”
“All men begin their learning with Homer.”
“Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.”
