Firsts Quotes
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When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore. I just wanted acting to be my job.
Tracy Spiridakos
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I've had plenty of friends tell me that their first time doing stand-up, they do well, and then they tank for a while after that. Kind of like the first time you do a drug, you're like, "Huh! This is pretty darn good," and then you spend all your money trying to get the same high.
Jim Gaffigan
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Very often the music comes first.
Neil Diamond
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Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.
William Graham Sumner
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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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If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.
William J. O'Neil
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My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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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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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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Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
William Bartram
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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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Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.
Wim Wenders
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Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second.
Karina Smirnoff
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All the science of God is going to be exposed before you, completely. You are going to know the complete science of Divine Laws. They are very different from the ordinary laws we know. But first enter into the Kingdom of God. That's why I say first get your Self-Realization.
Nirmala Srivastava
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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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But Rawkus is integral to what I do, because the cats who started Rawkus are the first ones who really saw my vision, and gave me a platform to get it out there, so I'm definitely totally grateful for that.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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When I first got into the entertainment industry, I would always watch Rihanna and all those people, so I was like, 'Ooh, I have to be this.' So my mom was like, 'Just be yourself.'
Willow Smith
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Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy. "It doesn’t matter.
C. S. Lewis
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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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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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We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.
Bert McCracken
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Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.
Sarah Dessen
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On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!
Vint Cerf