Firsts Quotes
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My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
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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.
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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.
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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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The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.
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At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something
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If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.
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I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
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Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
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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."
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The first must that any director has is to not force his public.
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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.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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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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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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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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I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
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Hitler was the first superstar.
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In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.
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You have an advantage in life when you start where others talk first.
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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.
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Kempo is for the street first; everything else is secondary.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
