Firsts Quotes
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.
Molly Parker
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A sucker has no business with money in the first place.
Canada Bill Jones
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I have to say I was very lucky in this [movie] business. I was in the right place at the right time when I first got started.
Richard Masur
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I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.
Paul Merton
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I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.
Mireille Mathieu
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People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.
Richard Rodney Bennett
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You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.
Mo Ibrahim
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In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.
Vincente Minnelli
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First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.
Baron Vaughn
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
Cato the Younger
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The first thing that confronts us in studying verbal structures is that they are arranged sequentially, and have to be read or listened to in time.
Northrop Frye
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I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
William Congreve
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Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.
Dolly Parton
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In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get it the way you think is right at that time. With clay that's not possible. You either succeed the first time, or you should wad it up and start over again, because you can't mess around with the clay and still have it fresh.
Warren MacKenzie
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If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.
Etgar Keret
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Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.
Seth Godin
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The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
Ray Bradbury
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I remember music first artists second.
Tina Turner
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A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.
Simon Sinek
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I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.
Ryan Sheckler
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The first game was against Wake Forrest - I'll never forget that game.
Bo Jackson
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I cannot take you out and say you are separate from the whole. If someone says to me, "Well, how do I find my life purpose?" I first say, "You've never lost your life purpose." Number two, I say, "Have no judgments about your life. No expectations. Give up the need to know what happens tomorrow. Just be fully present and appreciate all that is in your life right now."
Caroline Myss
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I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
Cathy Freeman