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Beginning
Stories
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
- A. E. van Vogt
Dedicated
Closet
I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
- A. J. Cook
Border
Conclusive
There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.
- A. K. Antony
Trade
Import
India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Had
Dearest
Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Funding
Request
Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.
- Aaron Klein
American
Control
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
- Aaron McGruder
Loud
Bruised
I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
- Aaron Neville
Mine
Projects
Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.
- Aaron Neville
Doing
I Remember
I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
- Aaron Neville
Small
Very
I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.
- Aaron Paul
Love
Everyone
I love everyone over at Netflix. They're all fantastic and an absolute joy to work with.
- Aaron Paul
Like
Allow
I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
- Aaron Rodgers
Pain
Play
I've dealt with a lot of injuries over the years, and you just learn about pain management and how to keep yourself in the best shape to play on Sunday, and then playing with pain.
- Aaron Rodgers
Voice
Kind
I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
- Aaron Sorkin
College
Some
When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
- Aaron Staton
Private
Centuries
The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
- Aaron Swartz
Movies
Watched
I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.
- Aaron Tveit
Career
Side
I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.
- Aarti Mann
Work
Artist
The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
- Aasif Mandvi
Wealthy
Charities
I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
- Abbe Pierre
Parent
Muslim
The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.
- Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
Think
Reward
I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
- Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Son
Monarchy
The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.
- Abdullah II of Jordan
Some
Been
In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
- Abigail Washburn
Genetic
Tan
When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.
- Abraham Verghese
Here
Which
Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out.
- Abraham Zapruder
Given
Been
I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
- Abu Bakr
Think
I Think
I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
- Ace Frehley
Over It
Jefferson
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
- Ada Louise Huxtable
Types
Depends
There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
- Ada Yonath
Take
How
You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
- Adam Baldwin
Moving On
Always
Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
- Adam Brody
Why
Guy
When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.
- Adam Carolla
Like
Angeles
If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'
- Adam Carolla
Deal
Tent
Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
- Adam Cohen
Control
Will
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
- Adam Cohen
Need
Area
The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they're someone trustworthy.
- Adam D'Angelo
Answers
Like
When you look at Yahoo Answers, there can be a lot of garbage. But if you're careful about the rules and supporting good contributions, over time you can get better and better, like Wikipedia.
- Adam D'Angelo
System
Very
We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
- Adam Davidson
Wins
Works
The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.
- Adam Davidson
Steak
Sold
I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
- Adam DeVine
Through
Sold
I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
- Adam DeVine
Like
Bizarre
I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
- Adam Driver
Feedback
Take
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
- Adam Grant
New
PCs
The reliable way great conglomerates grew over time was by adding new products and buying new companies. IBM moved from mainframe to PCs.
- Adam Lashinsky
Idle
Given
Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft's growth - if not its profit engine - stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too.
- Adam Lashinsky
Through
Blend
The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.
- Adam Mansbach
Star
Parking
My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
- Adam McKay
Think
Been
For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
- Adam McKay
Green
Other
Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
- Adam McKay
Blend
Very
We shot a bit of 'Hunted' in Tangier, and you are in a very, very different world. It's very difficult to blend in over there.
- Adam Rayner
Mine
Passage
Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: 'Stop vamping.' It has remained a caution.
- Adam Ross
Learned
Potent
I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
- Adam Savage
Love
Best Way
I love working with friends; it's my favorite thing to do. I've found over the years that that ends up being the best way to spend my time.
- Adam Scott
Learned
Add
I've learned, over the years, to go after the parts where I feel I can add something.
- Adam Scott
Falling
Always
I like having a duty. I'm a terrible cook, but when people come over, if I'm falling between the cracks socially, I can always run away to my job.
- Adam Scott
Which
Workman
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
- Adam Smith
Hang
Works
Over the years, I've learned that if you can just hang in there and, regardless of what's presented to you, take it as a challenge and try to bring in something fresh, then it works.
- Adam West
Organ
Ease
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
- Adelaide Anne Procter
Reaction
May
It's hard not to take it personally when being wait-listed, passed over for a promotion, or losing a client to a competitor. But while feeling aggrieved may be an understandable reaction, it's not productive - it's not a good use of the experience.
- Adena Friedman
More
Been
All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.
- Adhir Kalyan
Which
Sold
We were licencees of Sara Lee Corp's air freshener brand Ambi Pur, which they sold to Procter and Gamble. So we handed it over to Procter and Gamble. Now we will introduce our own brand of air freshener.
- Adi Godrej
Sure
Been
I want people to get over my weight and the loss of it. It's been years, and I am sure people can find better things to talk about.
- Adnan Sami
Through
Been
I have been working and composing music since 1986. Over the years, I have seen our music industry go through all kinds of transformation.
- Adnan Sami
Love
Anybody
The response that I have got over the years is the best example that the people of India love me, and I feel as much Indian as anybody.
- Adnan Sami
Last
Increasingly
To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.
- Adora Svitak
Been
Elaborate
I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.
- Adrian Belew
Lifetime
Large
As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.
- Adrian Belew
Making
Folding
I was just taking my sketchbook to Kinko's and making photocopies and hand-assembling them - folding them over and stapling them.
- Adrian Tomine
Always
Editorial
'Drawn & Quarterly' has always given me complete editorial control over my books and comics, so any decision about what to include or exclude from the book was my own.
- Adrian Tomine
Product
Been
There have been a handful of assignments over the years that I've had to turn down due to time constraints, and I was fairly envious when I saw the finished product, beautifully illustrated by someone else.
- Adrian Tomine
Like
Very
I'm very tall, so I like a guy who's bigger than me - it makes me feel feminine and safe. I don't like to be hovering over a guy or feel like a linebacker.
- Adrianne Palicki
Palace
Romans
The Romans had chosen Pergamon to be the capital of their new province. But by 88 B.C., most of western Asia was allied with King Mithradates, who had taken over the royal palace in Pergamon for his own headquarters.
- Adrienne Mayor
Storm
Reed
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
- Aesop
Everybody
Am
I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story.
- Afrika Bambaataa
More
Dirt
Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.
- Agnes Macphail
Tired
Young
I was so tired once 'Abba' was over and just wanted to be calm and with my children. I married, was in 'Abba,' had my children, divorced, all in ten years. I wonder how I managed it, but I was young.
- Agnetha Faltskog
Thought
Started
When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought, 'Please don't fall over, please don't fall over, please don't fall over!'
- Agyness Deyn
Never
Heat
I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.
- Aidan Gillen
Technology Companies
Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.
- Aileen Lee
Last
Like
Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.
- Aimee Bender
Over It
Wasting
I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
- Aimee Mullins
Incredible
Certainly
The flesh and bone leg is just beautiful. It's elegant. You know, when it's working, it's incredible. But if it's not working, well, you know, your life is certainly far from over.
- Aimee Mullins
Career
Choosing
I won't apologize for choosing my career over kids.
- Aisha Tyler
Surreal
I Remember
I remember when I was that girl crying because I was so excited to finally meet Lita. To have girls crying over me is surreal.
- AJ Lee
Path
Does
I don't really have control over my path - only the Lord does - but I do have control over my decisions.
- AJ Michalka
Smiling
Best Way
A man can get my attention by smiling at me and then coming over and talking to me. The best way to get a girl's attention is to start a conversation.
- Aja Naomi King
Always
Films
The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
- Ajay Devgan
Could
Perfectly
Criminals were coming to Chechnya from all over the world - they did not have a place in their own countries. But they could live perfectly well in Chechnya.
- Akhmad Kadyrov
Important
Africa
In Africa... age is not important over there. They don't care.
- Akon
Became
Lives
I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.
- Akshay Kumar
Other
Jobs
Technology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
- Al Franken
Always
Been
I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.
- Al Gore
Business
Last
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
- Al Gore
Love
My Life
If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.
- Al Green
Die
Before
When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did.
- Al Hirt
CD
Studio
More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio.
- Al Jarreau
Bother
Been
I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.
- Al Lewis
Audience
TV
I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.
- Al Lewis
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