Firsts Quotes
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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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Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.
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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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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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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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Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.
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A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.
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It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.
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I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.
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I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.
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He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
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Pack is built on the bonds of family, of mating, of love. You come first. You always will.
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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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This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.
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I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.
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From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.
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The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.
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Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.
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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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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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Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn't read the book at first. I read the script just to see what I would think of the script and I really liked it.
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I remember my first standup act when I was seventeen; I did a really lame song about being flat chested. I was doing it in New York, and I remember Kevin Brennan, the guy I lost my virginity to, was like "That song doesn't make sense, you have tits."
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
