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• I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three Bs: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.

  Alice Walton

  Art, Horse, Thinking

  "Alice's Wonderland" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. June 27, 2011.

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• Time for a new business model for the 21st century. For starters, retire that outdated and creepy clown. You can be a true leader by stop exploiting children. I guarantee the millennials market you’re after will reward you for it. I know the public health world will applaud you, starting with myself.

  Michele Simon

  Children, Leader, Creepy

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• When if comes to ballyhoo, Muhammad Ali made Barnum and Bailey look like non-starters, and he had the incandescent quality of the real star which would have made him famous, even if his gift was knitting not fighting.

  Michael Parkinson

  Stars, Real, Fighting

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• I don't get how people want to read books on computers because it must be really bad for your eyes, for starters. I love the smell of books and I just like the whole experience of it. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I like that whole experience - it's the same as I like putting on a record or a CD and waiting for it to arrive or buying it and waiting to listen to it in full.

  Kate Nash

  Book, Eye, Cds

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• Her entire body quivered. "What is it about me that you're attracted to?" "For starters, the sexy underwear you put on beneath your clothes." "You've only seen my underwear once." "Twice," he said. "I looked down your top at the pier." "You did not." "Pink-and-white polka-dot bra." "Oh my God." "That's what I was thinking." -Mallory and Ty

  Jill Shalvis

  Sexy, Thinking, White

  FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from Jul 16, 2013

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• What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into the modern age, a Muslim Reformation to combat not only the jihadist ideologues but also the dusty, stifling seminaries of the traditionalists, throwing open the windows to let in much-needed fresh air.... It is high time, for starters, that Muslims were able to study the revelation of their religion as an event inside history, not supernaturally above it.... Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  Salman Rushdie

  Sibling, Moving, Air

  "Everybody needs to get thicker skins" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2008.

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• Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

  Og Mandino

  Positive, Good Morning, Success

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• What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Ducks, Evil, Killers

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.94, Hachette UK

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• On the other hand, winning awards is cool. Aside from the warm fuzzy, it creates publicity, and that helps spread the word about the book. Plus, this award was a plaque of some sort. I could have used that for all sorts of things. Obviously it would be useful for decorating the barren walls of my house and intimidating my enemies, but that's just for starters.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wall, Book, Winning

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• We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Fire, Affliction, Our Love

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Self, People, Inspire

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• Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Hurt, Dirty, Age

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• I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.

  Geri Halliwell

  Dating, Late, Fronts

  "Geri Halliwell talks turning 40 and looking for love". HELLO! Magazine Interview, www.hellomagazine.com. August 20, 2012.

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• There are 7 billion people on the planet. Pretty much everyone is doing sex. It's not like you need to order the "baby-starter kit" on Amazon. Instincts will come to you at the weirdest places and times.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Baby, Sex, Order

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.

  Andrew Card

  Country, Kyoto, World

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• I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.

  Donovan Bailey

  Running, Race, Relax

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• Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot." Mom: "You don't take pot, for starters." Me: "See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID.

  John Green

  Mom, Teenager, Fake

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.214, Penguin

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• I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, People, Pudding

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• HuffPost serves as a starter page for news consumers, a place to find, and be directed to, the best content available on the Web. We consistently link out directly to other sites - often from our top-of-the-page headline.

  Arianna Huffington

  News, Links, Pages

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• It's amazing. Being clearheaded for a show, for starters. Not being reflux-y because of the amount of beer you've drunk.

  Ladyhawke

  Beer, Drunk, Shows

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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• That's always been my main anxiety - the people in the room. That's my massive stress - thinking that these people in the room are judging me. And, this time around, I've been able to think a little bit more clearly about that. I've been able to think "Well, no. They're here to enjoy a show," and I want to give them that. I want to give them their money's worth – for starters.

  Ladyhawke

  Stress, Thinking, People

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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• When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.

  Future

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Stars, Play

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• For starters, I should just tell you that The Band was always my favorite band from the first moment that I heard the first note of "The Weight" on WNEW radio. It was when I was eight years old and Music From Big Pink came out. They were my favorite band always. They had a profound influence on me and on my becoming a musician.

  Colin Linden

  Eight, Years, Profound

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• A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Team, Goal

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.154, Crown Business

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