Firsts Quotes
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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.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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!
Joan Fontaine
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speaking with, uh, about the vocal choreography, one of the first groups that I worked with was a group called the Cadillacs, which was uh, an exceptionally talented group. They all moved well and they sort of established Cholly Atkins's style. In other words they basically put me on the map, and everybody would look at them and see their choreography and they wanted to know who did it, so they would tell them.
Cholly Atkins
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
Miles Davis
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Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978.
Greg Ginn Black Flag
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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled.
Ernest Hemingway
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Virginia Woolf
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If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.
Andrew Mason
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My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And Google Glass is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.
Sergey Brin
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The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler
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The first thing I ever heard about synthesizers, they were being used in rock.
Herbie Hancock
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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Lois McMaster
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It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.
Etgar Keret
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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.
Willa Cather
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The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water
John Stuart Blackie
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I'd like to be the romantic lead one day, but I've got to grow my hair first.
Vinnie Jones
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I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.
Jim Gaffigan
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I was over there in Hawaii. I was there on the big island. The 'Big Island' - that name cracks me up. First of all, it's not that big, so I'm pretty sure a guy came up with that name. Carol Leifer
Carol Leifer
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We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]
William Whewell
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The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.
Warren Adler
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.
Ernest Hemingway
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
Erica Jong
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Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
William Graham Sumner