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What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. — James Fenton
Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming… — Richard V. Allen
There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile. — Richard Petty
Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes. — Douglas Coupland
I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other,… — Miles Davis
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past… — Jack Kerouac
Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more… — Napoleon Hill
It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career. — Scott McCloud
I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships. — Tracy Austin
No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew… — Norton Juster
Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If both tits just… — Augusten Burroughs
I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10… — Jared Diamond
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both… — A J P Taylor
My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge,… — Tucker Max
I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At… — Mos Def
Living through the 1929 Great Depression helped shape my social conscience. During this time, I realized the earth was still the same place, manufacturing plants… — Jacque Fresco
Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when… — P D Ouspensky
I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except… — P D Ouspensky
When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins — Gerry Mulligan
The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own… — Galen
I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite… — Galen
I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life. — Dick Schaap
I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great… — David Suzuki
Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and… — Alan Freed
I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a… — Bob Barker

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