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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

~ Vince Vaughn

We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.

~ Zig Ziglar

Dating is fun. It's light: There's courting; there's the interesting, exciting text messaging and flirting. There's no weight. When you start getting into relationships, you really start having to consider each other in your lives, and I think that's really important.

~ Denise Vasi

When you start dating another country star, the first question is, 'When are y'all gonna do a duet?' And what sucks about that is people expect you to do it whether you want to or not.

~ Blake Shelton

When I left Tinder, I had no intention of getting back into the dating industry. What I ultimately wanted to do was start this contagious complimentary social network, where kindness was at the helm.

~ Whitney Wolfe

I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.

~ Geri Halliwell

I was bullied. I was a bit of a geek. Good-looking guys were off-limits. I didn't start dating until I was 18.

~ Michelle Ryan

I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends.

~ David Gallagher

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.

~ Suze Orman

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

~ Jim Carrey

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

~ Joe Baca

My new passion is to get Internet education mandated in all schools. We've got to start teaching our kids how to be safe in the 40,000 plus chat rooms that are out there. Because they're being had. These sexual predators groom the kids. I know, I've arrested enough of them.

~ Erik Estrada

Every child should be given a strong start to their education.

~ Martin O'malley

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

~ Franz Kafka

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

~ Nikolai Gogol

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

~ Tom Hopkins

CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.

~ Quentin Tarantino

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

~ Ken Jennings

When you're setting up a budget, a general rule is to start with your fixed expenses - your housing and insurance payments, and car payment, if you own one.

~ Jean Chatzky

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

~ Elon Musk

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

~ David Byrne

My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.

~ Aubrey De Grey

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.

~ Anthony Bourdain

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

~ Wangari Maathai

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

~ Eckhart Tolle

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

~ Tom Petty

People want to start their day off with a smile or, better yet, a guffaw.

~ George Takei

My theory is, if you force yourself to smile enough, then you start to feel it. Which comes in handy all the time.

~ Erika Christensen

Jung Yong-hwa and I know so much about each other, I think it would be difficult for us to start a romantic relationship.

~ Park Shin-Hye

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

~ Trevor Noah

I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.

~ Shia Labeouf

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

~ Ben Bernanke

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start. Once I'm off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose if it started on a laptop - not that what I do is poetry.

~ Simon Schama

In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.'

~ Malcolm X

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

~ Colin Powell

When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.

~ Gil Penchina

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

~ Ron Fournier