First Quotes
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
Vernon Howard
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
Aaron Swartz
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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.
Vikas Swarup
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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.
Barry Sanders
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
Feist
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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
Beau Bridges
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
B. B. King
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
Aaron Allston
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
Omari Hardwick
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'When Marnie Was There' was the first animated film I've ever done.
Hailee Steinfeld
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I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
A. Scott Berg
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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.
Taylor Swift
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First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.
Karrie Webb
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Baruch Spinoza
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The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
Eden Hazard
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
Ville Valo HIM
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My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.'
Zendaya
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Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Ian Mcewan
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
Samuel P. Huntington
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The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
Gail Sheehy
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
Pablo Casals
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
C. L. R. James