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  • House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our elec
  • What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
  • We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.
  • I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.
  • James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.
  • I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
  • Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.
  • Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
  • I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
  • There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
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  • Benjamin Booker As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Al Jourgensen Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.
    Al Jourgensen
    Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician (1958 - )
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  • Stephen King Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Bailey Chase 'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of fun, and I was obviously very excited about the opportunity to work with Rose Byrne and Glenn Close. I'd been a fan of that show before I started working on it.
    Bailey Chase
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Caitlin Rose 'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Billy Dee Williams Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Brad Garrett Actually, I have my own charity that I started that helps supplement families with terminal children.
    Brad Garrett
    American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and professional (1960 - )
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  • Ben Affleck After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Alan Alda After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Casey Affleck After high school, I drove out to L.A. with a friend of mine who had just graduated also, and I started auditioning. I got an agent, but it was all 'Saved By the Bell' auditions.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Bill Nye After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Brandi Chastain After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Brad Stone Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Bipasha Basu An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Bill Cosby As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my [younger] brother... Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Ben Vereen As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Billy Connolly As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Bianca Marroquin As the years went by, working on Broadway, I started seeing that I had a fan base and that they were mostly young girls. They are looking for someone that they can look up to, that they see as a role model. And I don't take that lightly; it's a big responsibility.
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  • Butch Trucks Back when Napster first came along, I started telling everybody Napster was like shooting yourself in the foot because you're stealing music. The record companies don't pay for us to make records - the bands do.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bjorn Borg Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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