Firsts Quotes
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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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I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
Cathy Freeman
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I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.
Ryan Sheckler
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My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.
Stephen Fry
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At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something
Sun Ra
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If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .
Richard Feynman
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I think the first thing is to recognize that there is an ebb and flow to your career. There are going to be moments that are really high, and then you're going to have moments where you step away for a little bit, and maybe that's just by choice or maybe you have a family.
Michelle Monaghan
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I'm pretty sure that wasn't Oscar's first time getting harassed or held-up by authorities. And over time you start to feel some type of way when you get pulled over. "Oh, I gotta go through this. Again."
Michael B. Jordan
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Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny.
Howard Stern
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First. get clear on how you want to feel. Then, do stuff that makes you feel that way.
Danielle LaPorte
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A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
Henry Winkler
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The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
Seth Godin
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When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.
Ethel Waters
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My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe
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I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.
Viswanathan Anand
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? ...They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
Carson McCullers
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Although there are times I'd give anything to have her back, I'm glad she went first. Losing her was like being cleft down the middle. It was the moment it all ended for me, and I wouldn't have wanted her to go through that.
Sara Gruen
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When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?
Will Ferrell
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When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
David Bowie
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My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
Dolly Parton
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You must always steal, but only from the best people. Steal any trick that looks worthwhile. If you see Vivien Leigh or Robert DeNiro or Meryl Streep do something stunningly effective, and you can analyze how he or she did it, then pinch it. Because you can be sure that they stole it in the first place.
Michael Caine
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Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.
Thomas Sowell
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Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.
Caroline Myss
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If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
William Law