Firsts Quotes
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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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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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The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.
Richard John Neuhaus
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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.
William Shakespeare
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Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
Cynthia Heimel
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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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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.
D. H. Lawrence
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Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.
Herb Ritts
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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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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!
William James
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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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I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.
Ernest Hemingway
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The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
Norman Granz
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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.
Nicolas Darvas
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Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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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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Never bet with anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a 1-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes.
Dave Marr
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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.
William Shakespeare
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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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By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust.
Seth Godin
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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.
Scott Pelley
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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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Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.
Tony Evans