Firsts Quotes
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Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.
Richard Rodney Bennett
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The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
William Wilberforce
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There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.
Richard Pryor
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Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
Kevin James
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He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.
Zadie Smith
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I get it. Allah put me through it first so I could rise back up and help those around me. He trains you first. Then He sends the people to you and you to the people.
Yasmin Mogahed
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You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.
Robert Rodriguez Chingon
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I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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I had a great start in television; the first thing I did was an episode of Performance called The Entertainer with Michael Gambon playing Archie Rice.
Helen McCrory
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I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.
Virginia Madsen
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The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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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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That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.
Jimmy Buffett
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Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.
Brian Tracy
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I think a lot of people end up making sequels to movies just because the first one did a lot of business, and I think what people have learned is that it doesn't matter if the first one did a lot of business or that people want to go see another one just to see another one.
Neal H. Moritz
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True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.
Holliday Grainger
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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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Second place is really the first loser.
George Steinbrenner
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I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
Vivienne Westwood
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You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.
Michael Bloomberg
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Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.
Dale Carnegie
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The word "knowledge" itself, we like to break it down into two different words, "know" and "ledge." You've got to know the ledge. Know the limitation of things. Know where they go, know where they start from. We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. But everything is first based on something being known. Then, when it's known, then it can be manifested.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.
Renee O'Connor
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The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only wish that the Americans had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii.
Isoroku Yamamoto