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Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.

I decided that the only way there would be a future was to start to cut back.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.

There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

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?

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career.

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

Songs always get better after you start playing them live.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.