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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?

Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.

Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it.

We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising.

When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.