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Beginning Quotes

"I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning."

Kelly Jones, Welsh Musician

Beginning, Challenge, Open

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"But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire."

Avi Arad, Israeli Businessman

Beginning, Community, Revolution, Office

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"When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks."

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian Politician

Beginning, Goodwill, Now, President

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"That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Beginning, End, First, Interest

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"I am still simple, just as if I were beginning."

Compay Segundo, Cuban Musician

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"In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here."

Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian Musician

Beginning, Silence, Sound

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"Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end."

Swami Sivananda, Indian Philosopher

Beginning, End, Joy, Meditation

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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today."

Walter Lang, American Director

Beginning, Cause, Race, Relatives

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"So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly."

Fred Thompson, American Politician

Beginning, Choices, Improvement, Will

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"Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings."

Robert Collier, American Publisher

Beginning, Beginnings, Man

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"There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end."

C. S. Forester, English Novelist

Beginning, End, Writing

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"Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us."

Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian Politician

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"I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture."

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American Writer

Beginning, End, Talking

"Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning."

Rita Coolidge, American Musician

Beginning, Jazz

"I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning."

Mick Taylor, English Musician

Beginning, Right

"In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else."

Billy Corgan, American Musician

Beginning, Want, Wrong

"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

Beginning, End, Words

"Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day."

Thornton Wilder, American Novelist

Beginning, Children, Day, End

"I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides."

Shane West, American Actor

Beginning, End, Friends, Popular

"Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along."

David Keene, American Activist

"I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough."

John Major, British Politician

Beginning, Economy, Regret, Sound

"But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!"

Kate Chopin, American Author

Beginning, World

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."

Lewis Carroll, English Author

"Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet."

Eric S. Raymond, American Author

Beginning, Internet, Linux, Numbers

"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."

Jack Vance, American Author

Beginning, Ending, Pretty, Want

"At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified."

Havelock Ellis, British Psychologist

Beginning, Day, Present, Rejection

"The past is but the past of a beginning."

H. G. Wells, English Author

Beginning, Past

"More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause."

Harry Vardon, English Athlete

Beginning, Cause

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end."

Gilda Radner, American Actress

Beginning, End, Ending, Now

"It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear."

C. L. R. James, British Journalist

"I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer."

Randy Castillo, American Musician

Beginning, Parents, Play

"The future is always beginning now."

Mark Strand, American Poet

Beginning, Future, Now

"In my end is my beginning."

Mary Queen of Scots, Scottish Royalty

"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."

Charles Darwin, English Scientist

Beginning, Content, Mystery

"This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them."

William Bligh, British Soldier

Beginning, Day, First, Pleasure

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

"Only beginning to present itself over the horizon."

Dwight Yoakam, American Musician

Beginning, Present

"I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer."

Yannick Noah, French Athlete

Beginning, Career, Past, Weight

"Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple."

Crystal Chappell, American Actress

"I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses."

Bill Walsh, American Editor

Beginning, Caution, Ending, Quotation

"The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event."

Rem Koolhaas, Dutch Architect

Beginning, End, Production

"We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body."

Ray Kurzweil, American Inventor

Beginning, Body, Computer

"The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1."

Eric S. Raymond, American Author

Beginning, Beginnings, Culture, First, Today

"I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way."

Isabelle Huppert, French Actress

Beginning, Living, Want

"Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one."

Jonathan Carroll, American Author

Beginning, Discovery, End

"At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late."

Hesiod, Greek Poet

"I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear."

John Corigliano, American Composer

Beginning, Students

"Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it."

John Corigliano, American Composer

"I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives."

F. Murray Abraham, American Actor

Beginning, President

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