Beginning Quotes

• When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Believe
  • Beginning
  • Boy

• In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Music
  • Room
  • Listener

• But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.

  

  Jerry Harrison Talking Heads
  • Focus
  • Beginning

• American firms are beginning to reproduce nonsustainable systems, to force the elite of India to become energy consumers of the kind that the U.S. has become. That’s what globalization is about: Find markets where you can.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • American
  • Energy
  • Beginning

• If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Action
  • Moments
  • Beginning

• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Neither

• When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Writing
  • Beginning

• I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Beginning
  • Just
  • Fingers

• People have always had a fascination with the supernatural going back to the beginning of time and with vampires in particular. This phenomenon is not new.

  

  Richelle Mead
  • People
  • Particular
  • Fascination

• The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Beginning
  • Weird

• I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

  

  Christopher Reeve
  • Time
  • Long
  • Optimistic

• The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Beginning
  • Irresistible
  • Love-bite

• I don't necessarily believe that stories need closure. I just believe they need a beginning, middle, and end, but the end doesn't have to prevent us from continuing to grapple with the story at hand. It ideally should demand that we remain engaged with the story.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Believe
  • Hand
  • Beginning

• In the 1980s, when people were just beginning to talk about AIDS, there were just a few categories of those who were at high risk: homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin addicts, and Haitians. We were the only ones identified by nationality.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • High
  • Risk

• What I enjoy most about 'The Lord of the Rings' is that extended cut. To be able to sit there on a Sunday afternoon and watch 'The Lord of the Rings' from beginning to end is pretty fun.

  

  Lee Pace
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Sunday

• I think that, in the beginning, you think, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' And then, with the more movies you make, you are like, 'I don't know if I want to be that anymore. I think what I am looking for is something different.' I like acting, but a lot of times, stardom comes with a lot of strings attached.

  

  Chris Evans
  • World
  • Different
  • Movie

• I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures.

  

  Luanne Rice
  • Law
  • Beginning

• The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Beginning

• You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  

  Len Wein
  • Different
  • Story
  • Rules

• People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
  • People
  • Done
  • Beginning

• My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in the previous two decades, if it were not already my whole life-style! In the early eighties, we knew very little about this peculiar disease.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Life
  • Work
  • Style

• Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Human
  • Sides
  • Sincerity

• When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Beginning
  • Drawing

• Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Beginning

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