Firsts Quotes
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
William James
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The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.
William Friedkin
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Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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The first person you have to resurrect is yourself
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler
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We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.
Greg Ginn Black Flag
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Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.
William Feather
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Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"
Jim Gaffigan
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What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
Vincent Van Gogh
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The first draft of anything is sh*t.
Ernest Hemingway
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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.
Will McDonough
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It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.
Deacon Jones
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You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.
C. S. Lewis
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It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey in the True Detective.They're fun guys with Woody Harrelson. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.
Michelle Monaghan
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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.
Mike McGavick
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Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.
Wim Wenders
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The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
William Robertson Smith
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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.
Karch Kiraly
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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
Ernest Hemingway
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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.
William Friedkin
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What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.
Van Morrison
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That's the first band I ever played in that was working and I was getting paid for it. I was 12. The other guys were a lot older than me.
Danny Gatton
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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.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
William Penn