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It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

~ David Hackworth

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.

~ Stewart Brand

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

~ Mae Jemison

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

Science in textbooks is not fun. But if you start doing science yourself, you will find delight.

~ Masatoshi Koshiba

About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the name - is really dead, along comes a story by Cory Doctorow.

~ Lois Tilton

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

~ Michael W. Smith

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

~ Nicole Richie

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

~ Barbara Sher

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

~ Jean Kerr

The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.

~ Drew Carey

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

~ Robert Wyatt

I've never been one to be too careful with my diet. If I really start watching what I eat, I'm already a thin guy - I just won't have any physical strength. I think I'll disappear if I don't eat what I need to eat or what I like to eat.

~ Daniel Nestor

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

~ Jerry Seinfeld

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

~ Hedy Lamarr

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

~ Alison Moyet

I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

~ V. E. Schwab

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

~ Winona Ryder

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

~ Ronald Reagan

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

~ Donald O'connor

I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.

~ Ellie Goulding

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.

~ Amanda Schull

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

~ Karl Marlantes

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

~ Michael Caine

It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.

~ Alexa Von Tobel

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

~ Adrian Grenier

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness.

~ Sung Kang

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

~ J. B. Priestley

I love to start the morning with a mist spray, especially after a night out.

~ Lily James

I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

~ R. L. Stine

I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.

~ Kristin Armstrong

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

~ Marsha Sinetar

Couldn't start the morning without caffeine.

~ Ginnifer Goodwin

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

~ Sugar Ray Robinson

What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.

~ Olympia Snowe

My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

I know that I need my coffee in the morning, and I don't want to talk to anybody at the start of my day!

~ Tituss Burgess

It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing.

~ Clive Cussler

I start off my morning with an Acai berry smoothie. I blend the Acai berries with kefir, blueberries, protein powder and peanut butter. I like this first thing in the morning because it's light on my stomach.

~ Charity Shea