Firsts Quotes
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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.
Iain Pears
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Madeleine Albright
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Sequels to most movies are always fluff and not as good as the first.
Ray Allen
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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.
Betty Smith
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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.
Boy George Culture Club
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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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The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
Ahmet Ertegun
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The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
J. G. Holland
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If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.
Brian Tracy
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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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In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.
William Billings
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First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends
Willie Pep
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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.
George Washington
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I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first, otherwise, they will shoot you. So I can tell you a joke and maybe you will laugh at the beginning. But it's not about telling jokes.
Sayed Kashua
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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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Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
William Butler Yeats
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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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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.
Adele Exarchopoulos
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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.
Rachael Taylor
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Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.
Jose Rizal
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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 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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Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.
Brian Tracy