Firsts Quotes
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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?'
Kristen Stewart
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In order to write about life first you must live it.
Ernest Hemingway
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In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
J. D. Salinger
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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.
Jim Gaffigan
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The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.
Richard Sherman
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A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
William James
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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
Vladimir Lenin
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I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasnt good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.
Kevin Spacey
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Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.
Herbert Spencer
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Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.
Tahereh Mafi
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I can honestly say that if I was told at this moment that I was dying, not my first, not my second, but certainly my third thought would be that I should never see Italy again.
Millicent Fawcett
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I had to go for a mammogram - my first mammogram ever - and It was really scary and I didn't know what to expect.
Monica Potter
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Now 'Boondock II,' people are gonna see it because they liked the first one. There won't be very many people who go see it who aren't familiar with the first one.
Sean Patrick Flanery
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When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."
Sandra Bullock
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It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.
Sarah Dessen
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Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.
William S. Burroughs
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Very often the music comes first.
Neil Diamond
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I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.
Sara Blakely
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When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
Carroll Quigley
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Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.
Ray Bradbury
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They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.
William Greenough Thayer Shedd
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My first car was in 2006 when I got on my first TV show - a BMW 328i2 four-door sedan in slate grey. That was a great day, that was.
Rebecca Mader
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On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
Vint Cerf