First Quotes
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
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I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
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My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.
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Our first album didn't work because we tried to be something we're not.
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There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
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I think that debut albums are supposed to sound sort of raw. You don't want to record 'Sgt. Pepper's' as your first album, because where do you go from there?
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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I went to eight different schools my first nine years of school.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.
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I think I first encountered Ebola from the movie 'Outbreak.' Then there was the book 'The Hot Zone.' It's the type of thing you either read and say, 'Oh wow, that's terrifying,' or you read it and say, 'Oh wow, I want to do that.' I read it and said, 'Oh wow, I want do that.'
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I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.
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When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
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The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
