Firsts Quotes
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No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
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The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!
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Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
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There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
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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.
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Second place is really the first loser.
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Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
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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.
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A second-class is a first-class mistake.
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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.
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We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.
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How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.
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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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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.
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Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.
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...first check whether the market as a whole is rising or falling. In other words, are you in a bull market or bear market? If the latter, stay out. The odds are against you.
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For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
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Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
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Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.
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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.
