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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Humanity, Living, Until

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres

Hell, She, Five

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot

Time, End, Place

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain

Secret, Getting, Ahead

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward Beecher

Judge, Point, Excellence

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney

Talking, Quit, Begin

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
Kurt Cobain

Gay, Proud, Fact

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Will Rogers

Nothing, Country, Treasury

When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
Marilyn Monroe

Five, Wanting, Actress

With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey

Confidence, Before, Won

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost

End, Writing, Knew

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
Eminem

Mind, Black, Trying

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
Walt Disney

Hope, Lose, Sight

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
Groucho Marx

America, Read, Stuff

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Will Rogers

Wife, Real, Same

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
Will Rogers

Ignorance, Knows, Bounds

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Confidence, Self

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
Steve Prefontaine

Down, Sense, Keep

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'
Bill Cosby

Mother, Past, Put

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
Will Smith

Life, Real, Black

I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.
Demetri Martin

Love, Trust, Women

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
Nelson Mandela

War, Art, Fight

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Today, Tomorrow, Finished

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
Ayn Rand

Matter, Wealth, Fortune

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
Bob Dylan

Music, Culture, Sound

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
Yogi Berra

Money, Power, Today

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
Walt Disney

Used, Actually, Cartoon

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.
Johnny Depp

Life, Family, Angry

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
Mitt Romney

Success, Great, Business

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
Katharine Hepburn

Famous, Learn, Wanted

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