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Don't send out a newsletter just to send out a newsletter. One newsletter a year that is really interesting is more beneficial than 12 that are boring. If you write two or three boring newsletters in a row, your readers will start to think you write boring books.
M. J. Rose
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
E. O. Wilson
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The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.
Ed Pastor
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I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.
Ed Sheeran
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
Sam Shepard
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You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.
Taylor Momsen
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I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.
Zeresenay Alemseged
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Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.
Wayne McGregor
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Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
Earl Weaver
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Nobody's ever wanted to start a fight. I stay away from all that stuff.
Taylor Lautner
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My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'
Magic Johnson
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It's a blizzard of emotions -- ecstasy and also agony that we had to go through this to start with.
Frank Keating
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The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
Major Owens
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We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.
Natalie Cole
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In any sauce you make, start with a concentration of flavors with great acidity. You then re-dilute the sauce, but the proportion of liquid you add should not be so high that you wash away the extracted flavor you're aiming to create.
Daniel Boulud
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I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.
Wale
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The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!
Ted Turner
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I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language.
Patricia MacLachlan
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I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
Aaron Swartz
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There are roughly 22,000 Palestinians working side by side with what you call settlers in factories and malls in the West Bank. If you work together, you start understanding each other.
Naftali Bennett
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At the start of my career, I fought to prevent offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast.
Frances Beinecke
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When people start to think they're figuring out 'The Vampire Diaries,' it switches on you.
Kat Graham
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I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
Patricia Polacco