Firsts Quotes
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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.
Wes Anderson
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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.
Seth Godin
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One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.
Satchel Paige
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The first hundred years are the hardest.
Wilson Mizner
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When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
David Bowie
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Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.
Ruth Gordon
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There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.
Scott Adams
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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
William H. Macy
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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 don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed his hand. "And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I wanted two things. First, I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have.
Nicholas Sparks
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I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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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 have an advantage in life when you start where others talk first.
Toni Kroos
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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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I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
Cathy Freeman
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
Seneca the Younger
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Hitler was the first superstar.
David Bowie
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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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That's your first mistake. Do not trust me.
Randy Orton
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Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
Ray Bradbury
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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
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In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
Seneca the Younger
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If you ain't first, you're last!
Will Ferrell