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"I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself."
"God uses our conscience. He knows we can only start over when we are not condemning ourselves anymore."
"The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell."
"You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar."
"Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones."
"We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten."
"I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me."
"With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start."
"And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over."
"Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road."
"I'm still trying to figure out exactly what President Trump represents in American politics. But, if nothing else, he represents a way for tens of millions of people who were desperate for change to just turn the table over and say, we want to start over again. But it is a challenge for our democracy. It definitely is. But, again, the remedy has to be devoting enough attention to restoring the way we make collective decisions in this country."
"I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over."
"I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything."
"Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version."
"Now I've gone for too long Living like I'm not alive So I'm going to start over tonight Beginning with you and I"
"But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been"
