Firsts Quotes
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One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.
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Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
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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.
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A second-class is a first-class mistake.
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Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.
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The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.
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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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Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.
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Soon we shall be up there with Christ. God did not mean us to be happy without Him; but God would first have us to be witnesses for Him down here, to hold out as much light as we can.
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In order to write about life first you must live it.
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I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.
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The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
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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.
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Very often the music comes first.
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I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.
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The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.
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As a matter of fact, there was a period of time, especially in my first career, when that's the only one who would work out with me: my dogs. As you get better and better working out, there's no one who can keep up with you running.
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Every offense is not a hate at first.
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Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'
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For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.
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There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
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I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.
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If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.
