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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was.

When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.

When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.

And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start focusing on what we're going to do to make ourselves ready for the next hurricane.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

I'd always said that I'd like to have a title by the next Olympics, so this is a great opportunity, and could be the start of my climb to a world title.

I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because they'll give me a bit of energy to keep going.

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends.

I think if you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else.