First Quotes
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza -
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Samuel Butler
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
Walter Kirn -
I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.
Yami Gautam -
I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
Orhan Pamuk -
At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
Tadashi Yanai -
My first car was a motorcycle.
Adam Carolla
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
Macaulay Culkin -
The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
Hans Berger -
I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
Patricia Ireland -
It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
Barbra Streisand -
My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
Victoria Pratt -
It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read the script and thought it was brilliant.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
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My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
Zendaya -
The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
Earl Weaver -
My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
Taylor Dayne -
People are already on Match and already going to Starbucks on first dates.
Sam Yagan -
From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
Natasha Lyonne -
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
Karl von Frisch
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At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
Tamsin Egerton -
My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
Ramon Rodriguez -
Fear created the first gods in the world.
Caecilius Statius -
I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
Mallory Ortberg