First Quotes
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
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If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
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The first concert I ever saw was Roy Orbison.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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I started off first doing a TV series called 'Boston Common.' That was my first big job, and then I went on to do another half hour comedy show, and that was with Tom Arnold, called 'The Tom Show.'
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The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
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I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
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Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.
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Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.
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First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.
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I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.
