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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show. ↗

— Barry Levinson

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My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

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The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

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Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

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When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry. ↗

— Roger Mudd

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When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy. ↗

— Graham Nash

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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change. ↗

— Harold Nicholas

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It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. ↗

— Douglass North

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As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person. ↗

— Kim Novak

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