First Quotes
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don't wanna do the same thing over and over again because that's, well, first of all that's no fun.
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The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.
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I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
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When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.
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I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'. He played my father on 'Becker,' and he's still one of my heroes. Along with John Cleese, he's my favourite physical comedian.
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My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.
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First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.
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Let's treat this country first and foremost.
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Our first album was a stupid mistake by the record company. They tried to sell us as an alternative act. A big mistake!
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When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.
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I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.
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First, we must do our own personal work, then we tend the necessary work of our family, then our community, then the world.
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I take no pride in having been the first public personality to come out publicly against Simpson. It just happened that way.
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When I first got asked to run for the state Senate, I was asked by a number of legislators I had worked with, and I thanked them and declined.
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But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
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When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.
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We were supposed to get it the first of December.
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I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.
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We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
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Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.
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The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.
