"We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states."
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"The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship."
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"The only purpose of starting is to finish"
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"I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything."
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"If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point."
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"I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though."
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"Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them. Both proclaimed, in Nietzsche's phrase, Follow not me, but you!"
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"Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small."
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"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point from which one must begin."
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"I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy."
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"I grew up always knowing what I wanted to do, and I'm starting to see how rare that is. All of my friends are just figuring it out. It's a process of elimination until you find what you love."
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"I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret."
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"If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is."
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"Starting with [Ronald] Regan it became quite open, the attack on unions. It wasn't the Pinkertons anymore, but it was just not applying the laws."
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"It was starting to smell really good in here. And if I liked what it smelled like, then they were liking what they were smelling, and ah…that would be me."
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"Gretchen shrugged. "After seeing how he acted when she almost died, I'm starting to get why she's with him." Then her voice hardened. "And really, Leila. That's twice now."
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