Beginning Quotes - page 87

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States. (John Poindexter)
One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profitable. My advice to them: Put Elvis Presley in the studio with a bunch of good, contemporary rockers, lock the studio up, and tell him he can't come out until he's done made an album that rocks from beginning to end. View quote
Jon Landau
'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn't the example per excellence of the Sly Stone music machine. View quote
Jon Landau
I want to be remembered as an actor who put in some good work in the beginning of his career, even better work at the end of his career and slowly, successfully made the transition into writing and directing. View quote
Jonathan Brandis
I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired. View quote
Jonathan Krohn
I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow I keep myself sane. View quote
Jonathan Lethem
As an actor, you don't want to know the beginning and end to your character's arc. It makes it more fun. You're not playing the end. You're playing it realistically. You don't know where this character is going to go and what's going to happen to him, which just makes it more interesting for the viewers to watch. View quote
Jordan Gavaris
I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there. View quote
Jose Andres
Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also. View quote
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven. View quote
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started. (Josh Holloway)
No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance. View quote
Joshua Bell
Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo. View quote
Jules Shear
I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it. View quote
Julia Leigh
Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, "you know I love you dearly-” "Why is it,” Violet pondered, "that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner? View quote
Julia Quinn
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not? View quote
Julia Quinn
'Supernatural' was great because my character changed so much from beginning to end, always keeping me on my toes. View quote
Julie McNiven
I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good. View quote
Julius Erving
The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end. View quote
James Badge Dale
The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes. View quote
James Black
I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us. (James Daly)
Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things. View quote
Kenneth Koch
And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures. View quote
Kevin Williamson
It's 2009, things change. I'm a creature of habit, so in the beginning I wanted it to be as much like the original as possible, but that's not reality. And reality is, this is a new generation, and people want to see 'Witch Mountain' again. View quote
Kim Richards
There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection. View quote
Kara DioGuardi