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		My parents were in high school when I was born. My mom was 16, my dad was 17. They were kids, at the very beginning of coming into their own and finding themselves.
	
	  Mahershala Ali Mahershala Ali
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		The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we want a bigger say in things.' So, I knew what I was getting into right at the beginning. It's the right thing to do.
	
	  Abdullah II of Jordan Abdullah II of Jordan
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		I was eight years old when Miley Cyrus made her debut on Disney Channel's 'Hannah Montana' and beginning my senior year of high school when she delivered the VMAs performance that single-handedly butchered the teddy-bear industry.
	
	  Tavi Gevinson Tavi Gevinson
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		For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
	
	  Edi Rama Edi Rama
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		The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The 'change' they envisioned is not the 'change' they have gotten.
	
	  Jon Voight Jon Voight
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		Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.
	
	  Octavia E. Butler Octavia E. Butler
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		But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
	
	  Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace
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		The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
	
	  Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke
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		Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
	
	  Taylor Hackford Taylor Hackford
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		There was a different, visionary team commitment that guided the black community at the beginning of the 20th century, best envisioned by educator, entrepreneur, and founder of Tuskegee University Booker T. Washington.
	
	  Burgess Owens Burgess Owens
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		From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.
	
	  M. Stanton Evans M. Stanton Evans
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		You don't really know how your film is going to turn out, but you can give it your best shot and hope the audience loves it. This has been my approach right from the beginning, and it's helped me a lot in my journey. All you can do is give the film your everything.
	
	  Katrina Kaif Katrina Kaif
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		In the beginning of my career, I read an article about the reason that men always look five years younger than women is because they shave.
	
	  Christie Brinkley Christie Brinkley
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		Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.
	
	  Aldous Huxley Aldous Huxley
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		I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
	
	  R. Kelly R. Kelly
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		You'll change inside when you realize The world comes to life and everything's bright From beginning to end when you have a friend by your side.
	
	  Demi Lovato Demi Lovato
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		'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone from desperate to merely painful - and, while fascinating, it is never entertaining or redemptive. But if you want an unadorned portrait of American life (at least in some places) at the beginning of the 21st century, this is the book for you.
	
	  Jane Smiley Jane Smiley
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		I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.'
	
	  Irvine Welsh Irvine Welsh