Firsts Quotes
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The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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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.
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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.
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A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.
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In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged: The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get.
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Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny.
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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."
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...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.
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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.
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Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new businesses makes painfully clear that there is nothing inevitable about the money coming back.
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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.
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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.
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When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.
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Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.
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I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.
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A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
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The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock.
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I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.
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I remember music first artists second.
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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.
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As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.
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When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
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Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.
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At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something
