First Quotes
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The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
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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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The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.
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Musical theatre is my first love.
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When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
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I'm a Muslim Egyptian-American, born in Cairo. I grew up in Kuwait until the first Gulf War, when my family relocated to the United Arab Emirates. As an adult, I studied and lived in the U.K. before moving to Boston.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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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.
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Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it's where I first started putting on shows.
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I found, after the experience of making 'Shaun Of The Dead' and then returning to the blank page - because 'Shaun Of The Dead' was the first screenplay I ever wrote properly - the experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful.
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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 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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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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Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.
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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
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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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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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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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When I was first swinging, it was a little more difficult left-handed to get my hand out and roll over.
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It's human when you get the sense that somebody likes you or is attracted to you - unless you're just completely repulsed by the person - I find that my first reaction is to entertain the idea.
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We were supposed to get it the first of December.
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My rooting interest these days is first and foremost competitive hockey, and secondly in officials not making a mistake.
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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
