Firsts Quotes
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
Seneca the Younger -
When we first hear a word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.
Joshua Foer
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At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something
Sun Ra -
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 -
My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
Dolly Parton -
People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.
Richard Rodney Bennett -
I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
Cathy Freeman -
If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.
Etgar Keret
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I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
Terence McKenna -
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 -
The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.
William of Auxerre -
I've had my heart broken, and it's the hardest thing. Everyone says, 'Give it time, you'll feel better in the morning.' But you don't. You feel like it's never, ever going to heal - especially during the first few weeks.
Mollie King -
The first must that any director has is to not force his public.
Sergio Leone -
Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
Ray Bradbury
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A sucker has no business with money in the first place.
Canada Bill Jones -
In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
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 -
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 -
I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.
Steve Martin -
Hitler was the first superstar.
David Bowie
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I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
Mikhail Baryshnikov -
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
Seneca the Younger -
You have an advantage in life when you start where others talk first.
Toni Kroos -
If you ain't first, you're last!
Will Ferrell