- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early Days Quotes
Every big story has a rough, unfinished beginning.
A young boxer learning fundamentals from a disciplined coach, a company's earliest and least polished chapter - this page honors the uncertain starts behind later success.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early days of the Libertines, we used to put on Arcadian cabaret nights. There'd be some girl climbing out of an egg; we'd try and get a couple of mates to tell a few jokes, performance poets, and then we'd play in the middle of it all. More people were on stage than in the crowd.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
While in the early days of networks, growth was limited by slowness and cost at numerous points - expensive telephone connections, computers that crashed, browsers that didn't work - the rise of the smartphone has essentially changed all that.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.
- Epidemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the early days at Netflix, it wasn't unheard of for me to tell prospective hires that I could see our stock going to a hundred dollars someday.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember the early days when every month I had to decide whether I should continue to lease a typewriter or if I could finally afford to buy it. Yes, that $12 a month really made a difference in our budget.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a guy who was a geek with tape machines in the early days and really interested in how records get made, I was inspired in particular by how the Beatles were innovating when they were making those records late in their career while using the studio in a maximal way.
- Francis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.
- Courthouse
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my very early days as a journalist, as a cub reporter on a local newspaper, I used to cover the district courthouse in Limerick city - all human life passed through that establishment, and my time there remains a source of inspiration.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020