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William S. Burroughs

Writer

I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.

Addiction - Experience - Journalism - Simple - Start - Strength - Writing

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Colin Powell

Former United States Secretary of State

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Courting - Examination - Policy - Start - Taking - Whole - Willing

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Noel Gallagher

Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist

I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.

Enjoying - Father - Start

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Gerard Way

Musician, Comic Book Writer

Um, lots of people grab my ass. I'm actually starting to get this thing now where people grab my package. That actually happened once in Boston, it usually doesn't happen. We went over to England and it happened at almost every show. I don't really enjoy any kind of invasion of privacy like that I guess. Grabbing my package is obviously a total invasion of privacy I'm not into that at all.

Enjoying - Kindness - Packaging - Show - Start

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Muhammad Ali

Professional Boxer, Activist

What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ... Islam is not a killer religion. ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem.

Hurting - Labeling - Meaning - Start - Watching

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Jay-Z

Rapper, Songwriter, Record Producer

Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.

Help - Songs - Start - Wellness

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Bill Gates

Business Magnate, Investor, Humanitarian

I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.

Start

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Albert Camus

Philosopher, Author, Journalist

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

Actions - End - Mindset - Start - Taking

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at best a means, not an end; a starting point, not deliverance. These people are looking less for an "electocracy" than for the basic elements that for most of us define a decent life--food, shelter, electricity, basic health care, education for their children, and the ability to make their way through life without having to endure corruption, violence, or arbitrary power.

End - Endurance - Meaning - Start

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George Lucas

Filmmaker, Entrepreneur

The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

Creating - Intelligence - Living - Making - Start - Story - Wants - Work

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Harvey Milk

Politician, Former San Francisco Supervisor

Once you have dialogue starting, you know you can break down prejudice.

Knowledge - Start

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Jack Lemmon

Actor

Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.

Giving - Having - Movement - Satisfaction - Start

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Jennifer Aniston

Actress, Producer

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

Start - Stereotypes

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Anne Frank

Author

It's important for celebrities, environmentalists and world leaders to continue to increase education and eco-awareness through the forums provided to them naturally by virtue of being famous. Take inspiration from these words of wisdom from a Nazi-era teenager and concentration camp victim: "how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

Camping - Leadership - Start - Teenagers

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

Painting - Start

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Gerard Way

Musician, Comic Book Writer

I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I put it in the computer, I fix it and change stuff. That's my process. I picked that up from speaking to Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill. I was messing around with the idea of starting to write more, writing a book and doing things like this, and I reached out for advice. They were like, "Oh, we hand write, and then we dump it all in." I was like, "Great! There's no more blank pages."

Start - Writing

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Isabel Allende

Writer

The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in California and she is 92 and living in Chile, we are still in touch daily.

Day - Start

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Buddha

Founder of Buddhism

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Happiness - Mindset - Mistake - Mourning - Past - Secrets - Start - Worrying

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Larry King

TV Host, Radio Host

I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.

Doing - Sport - Start

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Prince Philip

Royalty, Royal Knight of the Garter

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

Excellence - Start

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Alexander Fleming

Biologist, Physician, Microbiologist, Pharmacologist

In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.

Chemistry - Making - Publishing - Pursuit - Start - Studying - Value

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Kate Moss

Model, Fashion Designer

I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.

Mother - Ownership - Start - Wants

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Richard Linklater

Filmmaker

One minute you're starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it's career over. I was 20.

Hits - Start

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Elon Musk

Entrepreneur, Investor, Engineer

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

Start

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Taylor Swift

Singer, Songwriter

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

Creating - Giving - Madness - Making - Start - Taking - Talk

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Ringo Starr

Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Actor

George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.

Day - Knowledge - Start - Wants - Writing

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R. Kelly

Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer

I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.

Start

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Maria Montessori

Educator, Physician

Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.

Children - Leadership - Limits - Start - Story - Teaching

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Lady Gaga

Singer, Songwriter, Actress

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.

Calling - Friendship - Performance - Start - Theater

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Kate Moss

Model, Fashion Designer

Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.

Start - Taking

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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet...But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the grow ing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it.

Accounting - Destroying - Destructiveness - Earth - Growing - Imagination - Planet - Reaction - Start

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James Patterson

Author

I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.

Commerce - Graduating - Novel - Reading - Start

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