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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.

In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway.

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.

Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

The steps must be second nature to me, so that the music seems to be drawing the steps out of me and I don't look as if I'm struggling to fit the steps to the music.

Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.

I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.

I lived in Georgetown in the late 70s about four houses down from the steps.

I definitely see myself as a leader. One of the ways I've been lucky enough to lead and likely to continue to lead is just my actions and the way that I approach the game and working hard and being a player that steps up in big-time situations when plays need to be made.

It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction.

And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.

Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

With so many contradictory renditions of the biblical text, the public has lost confidence that we can actually know what the Bible says. It is an easy step from this skepticism to an indifference about what the Bible says.

If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward.

I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

I remember in the spring of 1971, a hundred thousand people converged on the Pentagon in June of 1971. They threw blood; I guess it was goat's blood or something, on the steps to the Pentagon. People were being accused of being murderers and baby killers. You just can't imagine the civic outrage.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.

If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.

When I step on the field, you know what you gonna get.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

The bottom line is, I hear my donors, I hear our base out there, I hear the leadership. And we're taking steps to make sure that we're even more - how shall we say it - fiscally conservative in our spending and certainly making sure the dollars are there when it's time to run our campaigns.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

I would love to be the African leader that steps down, that overthrows this idea of a Big Man ruler. I don't want to stay in office forever.

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

We are taking steps to fight the production of meth on our own soil through limiting access to precursor ingredients, supporting educational efforts and providing necessary resources to law enforcement.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

Yes, you have to be brave enough to take steps that your heart is telling you to take. Because when I decided to go into cricket, not one person told me I was making the right move. At that time, nobody thought the IPL would become so big. I was nervous at that time, because suddenly I was in an uncomfortable spot.

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'

Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin a series of gradual steps toward new transportation and energy policies, livable cities, and more humane, efficient transit systems.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.