Firsts Quotes
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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.
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Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.
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The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.
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Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
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I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.
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Never bet with anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a 1-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes.
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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.
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I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.
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I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.
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Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.
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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.
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I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
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The first thing I do when I get there like all of the players on tour is apply sunscreen. One of the few hazards of the job is the wear-and-tear our skin takes from the sun.
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To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.
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Very often the music comes first.
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I'm the hunter," Elena reminded him. "I should go first." "Of course you may go first. When I am dead.
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One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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None of the chase scenes that I did had any opticals. We had to do all of that physically. The first thing you have to do is see it in your mind's eye. You have to envision it. Imagine someone knitting a sweater or a scarf. They either have a pattern in front of them, or they see a pattern in their mind's eye. Then it's one stitch at a time. That's what shooting a chase is like.
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From the very first time I talked to Safeco employees, I said the reality was expenses were too high and the reality is two-thirds of our expenses are people, so the reality is there will be effects on people.
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She was the first woman who left me. (on his former wife, Rachel Hunter, shortly after their break-up)
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True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.
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Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress
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To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.
