Firsts Quotes
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The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
Kevin Spacey
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My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
William James
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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.
Paddy Chayefsky
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On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.
Rob Zombie
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Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the US, but I didn't click with anyone.
Cat Deeley
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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'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.
Donald Glover
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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.
Seamus Heaney
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I have to say I have the most experience. I'm a veteran when it comes to that, [my brothers] they're still learning. They have lots of potential. They're like first-round picks right now in the game, they still have to develop.
P. K. Subban
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There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.
E. A. Bucchianeri
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In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.
William Billings
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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.
Barack Obama
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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.
Barack Obama
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You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps
Seth Godin
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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."
Sarah Silverman
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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.
Vladimir Nabokov
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First you imitate, then you innovate.
Miles Davis
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Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.
William Bolcom
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An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.
William Ames
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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.
D. H. Lawrence
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There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.
John Travolta
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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
Willem de Kooning
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Becoming the first Canadian male to win a Major Championship, especially being the Masters, was a dream come true.
Mike Weir