Firsts Quotes
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Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
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You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.
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When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.
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True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.
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England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.
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I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.
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One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.
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My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.
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Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.
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When I go home, the first thing I do is wash the dishes. It feels real and it feels like home and it's humbling, it's something you don't do when you're living in a hotel, everyone cleaning up after you.
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Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.
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If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.
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Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.
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Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.
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Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
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What happened during the previews of 'Taboo' musical was that it was the first time I'd ever been written about as a great song-writer - I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn't the usual stuff like, "Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that..." It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing.
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The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
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I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.
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It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.
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This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.
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When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.
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I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
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A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.
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It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a warehouse for a bit for about a year. We did our first gig in June 2003 and we played a few gigs in and around Sheffield for a bit then started doing gigs outside of Sheffield about this time last year, recording demos while all this was going on.
