First Quotes
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Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
Catherine Deneuve
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Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.
Franz Kafka
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There is no substitute for hard work. There is a little luck along the way, but there is no substitute for really super-hard work, first in, last out.
Mary Callahan Erdoes
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Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
Red Smith
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When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.
Farid al-Din Attar
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When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.
Martin Gore
Depeche Mode
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No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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First there must be order and harmony within your own mind.
Confucius
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There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first.
Blaise Pascal
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My first band was an Argentinian folk group when I was 10. When I was 12 I had my electric guitar, and by the time I was 13, the Beatles came into the scene, and that was over. So I have a mixture of all these traditions, and I think that's who I am, a mixture of everything.
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla
Bajofondo
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Her face, at first…just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
Keith Reid
Procol Harum
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That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.
Phil Collen
Def Leppard
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I always wanted to have a scenario where the guy didn't have my number, but I had his. What if women make the first move, send the first message? And if they don't, the match disappears after 24 hours, like in Cinderella, the pumpkin and the carriage? It'd be symbolic of a Sadie Hawkins dance - going after it, girls ask first.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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For me, I'm a dancer first. I could be the President of the United States, and I will always be a dancer, first and foremost.
Anne Fletcher
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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
Salvador Dali
