Firsts Quotes
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Just let me do what I'm doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was. Don't try to sum up my career in one or two seasons. Let me finish it first.
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Senator [Bob] Corker has been, first of all, discreet and loyal. He has not signaled the internal mechanisms. He`s been pretty honestly saying, I wasn`t a real insider in the campaign.
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I think, to be honest, sort of emanated from the initial work of somebody else instead of SCLC. If you take Albany; I don't know whether you recall how Albany got started. There were two little guys who went up there first. One was Cordell Hull who was then in his teens - not Cordell Hull - Cordell Reagan, who came out of the Nashville movement, and Charles Sherrod, who came out of the Richmond, Virginia, movement.
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What came first the chicken or the dickhead?
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.
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Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.
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The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.
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First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.
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When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.
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All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
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My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible.
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The first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.
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The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
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I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.
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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
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We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.
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When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.
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Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.
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I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.
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Never settle for second when first is available
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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!
