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African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran . -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd. -- Fuxi
Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning. -- S. Truett Cathy
I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off. -- Jason Isaacs
There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. -- John D. Barrow
I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one. -- Mary Ellen Mark
I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well. -- Mireille Mathieu
Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it. -- Matt Drudge
I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started. -- John Oates
The integration of exponentially growing technologies is beginning to empower the patient, enable the doctor, enhance wellness and begin to cure the well before they get sick. -- Daniel Kraft
The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet. -- Marc Andreessen
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope. -- Henri Matisse
Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before. -- Matt Groening
At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating. -- Kami Garcia
I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs. -- Gene Ween
I've been on the opposite side of decisions before when the crowd would be booing and saying that I lost. I've lived with it. Judging in boxing has been same since the beginning, and it isn't gonna change. -- George Foreman
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door. -- Djuna Barnes
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics. -- Albert Schweitzer
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us. -- Frederick Leboyer
I did things like get in a cupboard before the teacher came in at the beginning of a lesson, and then, two minutes before the end of the class, I come out of the cupboard and go, 'Sorry I'm late.' -- Miranda Hart
Before beginning, plan carefully. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Before beginning, prepare carefully. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending. -- David Bayles
In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know. -- Neil Young
Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before. -- Alan Alda
I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece. -- Georges Bizet
Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
And the end and the beginning where always there, before the beginning and after the end. -- T. S. Eliot
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs. -- Fred Brooks
No number before zero. The numbers may go on forever, but like the cosmos, they have a beginning. -- Giuseppe Peano
I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in. -- Chris Lowe
There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. -- John D. Barrow
Before the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect, -- L. Ron Hubbard
As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress. -- Eric Kandel
People now are beginning to cheer for me. I've never heard that before. .. Maybe things are turning a bit. -- Alex Rodriguez
I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book. -- Ann Patchett
We are made of stardust, our whole body consists of material that has been here before the beginning of time. -- Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. -- Andre Gide
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it. -- A. A. Milne
You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser. -- Poppy Z. Brite
I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes. -- Laini Taylor
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read. -- Nathalie Sarraute
I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end. -- Scott Spencer
Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no such thing. -- Taner Edis
Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It's the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all. -- Gregory Maguire
Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about"¦ say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe. -- Rumi
I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it. -- Paul Auster
You need demarcation." "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity. -- Sarah Dessen
You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even a word is uttered. -- Judd Nelson
The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning. -- Veena Sud
Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that. -- Evelyn Glennie
Uh-uh. We've played this game before. I hide. You never seek. I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but I'm beginning to sense a pattern." - Clay to Elena -- Kelley Armstrong
Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening. -- Art Buchwald
I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started. -- Josh Holloway
I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six. -- Simon Newcomb
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word. -- Stan Brakhage
Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning the struggle or the Gnostic esoteric work. -- Samael Aun Weor
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.' -- Stan Brakhage
Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure. -- David Hilbert

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