Firsts Quotes
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When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.
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Sequels to most movies are always fluff and not as good as the first.
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The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps, and each one is absolutely essential. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.
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Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.
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The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.
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Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.
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God first seeks devotion to Him in the hidden place–worship when no one else is watching.
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I want my first son to be called 'Tommy.' It will sound great, Tommy Tomlinson
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Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
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My first job was a commercial for Ball Park Fun Franks.
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The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.
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I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.
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Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
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Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.
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I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.
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And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.
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The first season [of Jessica Jones] exceeded my expectations already, so I'm just waiting to see what will happen in the second season.
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The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water
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The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.
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This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.
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SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there.
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I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.
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For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.
