Firsts Quotes
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When I first went to New York, I didn't really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn't really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.
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First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends
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You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.
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The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
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It was one of the first things I did on my own; I worked at McDonald's, raised the money and did it. I'm really, really passionate about pro-choice, because I wouldn't be here talking to you right now if I'd had a kid at 15.
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Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.
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Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.
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He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
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My first job was a commercial for Ball Park Fun Franks.
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I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.
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Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.
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I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!
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The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, Girl in stall No. 1 were you in Mystic Pizza? I paused and I said, yeah that was me.
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I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
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Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.
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The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.
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Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.
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When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
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First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't.
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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.
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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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The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
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Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.
