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Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.

When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.

It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race.

The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.

It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.

Maybe the best way to get people to be pro-life is to start 'em off in amateur-life.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?

Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

If you want to make money and have action, you need to work from like, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Those are the hours. That just doesn't fit with a lot of people's schedules. And that's just the start of it. You've got to realize what you are getting into.

I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.

The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive.

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary.