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A beginning is the end of something, always.

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• There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Rules

• I don't want to end up losing my soul.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Soul
  • Want

• In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Die
  • Mean
  • Bible

• Malcolm X had a habit of scribbling notes in small pieces of paper that [Alex] Haley would surreptitiously pick up at the end of their discussions.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Up
  • Small
  • Habit

• Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Ends
  • Goodbye

• The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.

  

  Zeno of Citium
  • Life
  • May
  • Nature

• I was born to end up alone.

  

  Yana Toboso
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Born

• Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, "You will never get the girl at the end." So I worked on my acting.

  

  Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr.
  • Girl
  • Acting
  • Ends

• The Lampoon started in 1970, and I began writing freelance for them around the end of 1971, and then all through '72. They hired me in '73, and I left early in '81. I did everything from low puns to being editor-in-chief.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Ends
  • Editors

• No sentence can end with because because, because is a conjunction

  

  C. N. Annadurai
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  • Sentences
  • Conjunctions

• He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .

  

  E. M. Forster
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  • Christianity
  • Ought

• Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Up
  • Development
  • Ends

• But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• I'll get you naked by the end of this song.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Song
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  • Naked

• 'Cause if your love was all I had in this life, well that would be enough until the end of time. So rest your weary heart and relax your mind, 'Cause I'm gonna love you, girl, until the end of time.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Life
  • Time
  • Mind

• If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Day
  • Ends
  • Autograph

• Violence begins where knowledge ends.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Knowledge
  • Violence
  • Ends

• Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Men
  • Journey
  • Ends

• I'll tell you one thing, and this is banal to say because it just makes it sound like it's all planned, and nothing is planned at all. But one link is with The Deep End, and one link is that I'm making a film later on that revolves around the relationship between an innocent party and a dead body.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Party
  • Film
  • Body

• What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
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  • Salvation
  • Theology

• Most people don't walk around the tools to process pain and fear, that kind of discomfort. In most cases, it's unbearable to look at it, feel it, and/or address it. It's why I'm such a fan of self-help books.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • People
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  • Help

• My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy and trying to be funny to my older sisters. It's kind of my role in the family - tension reliever. I was funny or annoying, depending on your perspective.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Family

• Time has stopped; time is racing. Lochie's lips are rough yet smooth, hard yet gentle. His fingers are strong: I feel them in my hair and on my neck and down my arms and against my back. And I never want him to let me go.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Hair

• A beginning is the end of something, always.

  

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