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It's a 12-step program. The first step is to admit you have a problem. They still have 11 steps to go.


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ETHAN NADELMANN The first step forward is to admit your fear, then you can take the next step to conquer it.
KEN POIROT Trust is the first step to love.
MUNSHI PREMCHAND can't go back exactly where we were because we have taken some irrevocable steps, but Proposition 80...
JOE DUNN Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN We have taken the first step but there is at least a decade to go before this technology finds its w...
DR CHRISTOPHER SEMPRIMOSCHNIG Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They...
HAL SPARKS If you want to get a problem solved, the first thing you have to admit is that you have a problem. T...
FREMAN HENDRIX The first step is you have to say that you can.
WILL SMITH Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the expe...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The first step in solving a problem is to tell someone about it
JOHN PETER FLYNN The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you ...
DAN POYNTER Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
ZIG ZIGLAR How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS This is a first step in what has to be a long series of steps to get to anything clinical.
AILEEN ANDERSON Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
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RICHARD THALHEIMER Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small s...
INDIRA GANDHI What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to t...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The first step to receiving more blessings is appreciating the ones you have.
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ZENG HAN JUN Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into sma...
INDIRA GANDHI I can be absolutely assured that any endeavor of which God is not a part is most certainly a step ba...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Some people see life as many steps up and try to forget where they are coming from, you understand? ...
BURNING SPEAR National leadership is critically important to this, ... Them coming together and acknowledging that...
JOE DUNN If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ...
MITCH ALBOM There's 40 steps in that process, it's very complex. Any problem in any one step can cause a problem...
BOB WILLIAMS This is the first step to allow Iraq to have a unity government, but it's only a first step. The que...
ANTHONY CORDESMAN God will not show you the next step to take, if you have not taken the first step in obedience and f...
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C. JOYBELL C. We feel the first step to solving this problem is to hold the administration accountable.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We still have a long way to go, but when we are struggling, that's when your leaders step up. That's...
BEN WATSON Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
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I am not commanding you, but I ...
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HARPER LEE You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, eve...
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LJUPKA CVETANOVA Most times, the way isn’t clear, but you want to start anyway. It is in starting with the first st...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR For inner peace one must be honest to himself. He should strive hard to define first step to make hi...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We don't want to get into protracted discussions on who takes what steps first and how we calibrate ...
CHRISTOPHER HILL We're hoping to get the program back to respectable. I think we've taken the first step. We're feeli...
ERIK ZAIDEL The first step was a long process, ... Go Braves!
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and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
ZIG ZIGLAR Building a better you is the first step to building a better America
ZIG ZIGLAR The first step to discovery is the last step to failure.
PATRICK FLYNN I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
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TY CARMICHAEL Nothing touches your skin of sweat
(meltdown of oceanic kisses)
when the purple light
BEAR STEP Awareness is the first step to action. They have to know something is going on to know to do somethi...
DERICK VIRGIL Let's go from no where to somewhere! Trust, Its just a step ahead.
MAHRUKH Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small step...
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps...
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
OSHO Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Jeff and Jon have had to step up their game. Each has taken it upon themselves to maintain the excel...
JEFF PYLE I have been able to follow my death step by step and now my life goes gently to its end.
POPE JOHN XXIII While this is just a first step, it's an incredibly important first step.
DENIS HAYES ACD Systems has taken a significant step forward to realizing its growth potential. Tim and Jon have...
DOUG VANDEKERKHOVE Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we hav...
SAM GRAVES This is a good first step, but Sony has a ways to go to make things right for the consumer.
MARK RUSSINOVICH They have a receipt showing that on Dec. 11 they called a plumber and had their lines cleared. But b...
TERESA HAYES It seems like every time we take a step forward, others take a step forward, also -- maybe two steps...
GREG KNUDSEN There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps ...
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BRIAN M. RIEDL You can have a jury of 12 and have one juror overrule the other 11 in the sentencing phase of a capi...
MICHAEL RUSHFORD Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do something crazy to remember your alive!
NEIL OLSSON You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL To move forward, you must first take a step
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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requ...
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JON TENNEY Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their...
JON LANDAU It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything els...
JON LANDAU I held top-secret security clearance.
JON OSSOFF I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just ...
JON BELLION I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the pa...
JON OSSOFF It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. Wha...
JON MEACHAM I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, ...
JON MEACHAM We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very ve...
JON BATISTE It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ...
JON MEACHAM If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for...
JON FAVREAU We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings d...
JON STEWART An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the reje...
JON MEACHAM Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood...
JON KYL I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay ...
JON JOHANSEN I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You w...
JON ANDERSON Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. ...
JON FOREMAN I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a ...
JON RONSON