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I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

~ Sylvester Stallone

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

~ Mary Pickford

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

~ Chanakya

'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

~ Tommy Lasorda

I think, in storytelling, people want to see triumph, and so it's usually nice to start with failure and see someone somehow rise above it. People like to see people try. And they like to see people fail for comedy, and they like to see people succeed for the drama and emotion.

~ Nick Kroll

The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.

~ Darin Strauss

There's no idea or concept in comedy you could do that hasn't been attacked from some angle. But if you start leaving punchlines out so you'll look cool, I don't get that. But I don't watch standup anyway, so I don't know what they're doing.

~ Ron White

I thought it'd be cool to start my own university, in a way.

~ Ashton Eaton

Every time I take a photo, it goes into SnapSeed. Even if it's just a price tag on something, it still goes into SnapSeed, and I start editing it. I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

~ Hunter Hayes

You watch stuff like 'The Real Housewives' and you start to think, 'We're all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any of these people?' But then you look out into the world, and there are people who are doing cool stuff with their lives.

~ Mike White

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

~ Eliza Dushku

When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

~ Emma Thompson

If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.

~ Story Musgrave

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

~ Mike Davidson

The NFL is one of the few sports where it's possible to tear things down and start again.

~ Shahid Khan

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

~ Henry Rollins

Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.

~ Barton Seaver

I start from one point and go as far as possible. But, unfortunately, I never lose my way. I 'localize,' which is to say that I think always in a given space. I rarely think of the whole of a solo, and only very briefly. I always return to the small part of the solo that I was in the process of playing.

~ John Coltrane

I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.

~ Aaron Swartz

I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils.

~ Anthony Browne

Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.

~ Calvin Harris

Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something like a handkerchief, an object that doesn't have strong inside and outside boundaries or much closed volume.

~ Greg Lynn

The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had - it's a fresh start.

~ Kelly Clarkson

When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.

~ Adam Carolla

Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there.

~ J. August Richards

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

~ Natalie Massenet

Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it's even summertime.

~ Mariah Carey

I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way.

~ Drake Bell

I love Christmas. I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super-early' guy.

~ Drake Bell

The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.

~ Greg Graffin

When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.

~ Brenda Lee

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

~ Chanakya

I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know?

~ Hunter Hayes

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

~ Frank Gehry

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

~ Gloria Steinem

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

~ Joseph Murray

I can read a crowd pretty well. I know what to play and know how to keep it interesting for them and for myself as well. Most of the other DJs are more like producers so they become famous because they make hits and then they start DJ-ing. But I'm more from the other way around.

~ Tiesto

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

~ Bono

If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.

~ Danny Bonaduce