First Quotes
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.
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My first vocation was dance.
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Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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After the first quarter we played right with them.
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The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.
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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
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I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.
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For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
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'Shotgun's one of the first songs I ever wrote. It's about a couple I met at Waffle House, an all night diner I used to hang at before I could go to bars.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
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Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
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I shake hands on the first date.
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
