Firsts Quotes - Page 136

Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.
Roger Mcguinn / Musician
Assistants
Brand New
Firsts
Janitor
Strings
Assistant
Bought
Earned
Guess
String
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
Alexander Cockburn / Journalist
War
Firsts
Graveyard
Nonsense
Sick
Truth Is
Bay
Casualty
Implies
Stays
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Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around.
Zack Snyder / Film Director
Firsts
Moving
Stories
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If u behave differently, u will be expelled from the tribe because u can infect others and destroy something that was extremely difficult to organize in the first place.
Paulo Coelho / Lyricist
Life
Firsts
Inspiration
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First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
Paul Ricoeur / Philosopher
Firsts
Framework
Moses
Mouths
Narrative
Old Testament
Testament
Unimportant
Legislative
Mouth
Placed
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When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.
Jan De Bont / Film Cinematographer
Delighted
Film
Firsts
Second Chance
Directed
Raider
Tomb
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In a relationship the details are everything because they remind you - just when you need to be reminded the most - why you fell in love with someone in the first place.
Mike Gayle / Author
Details
Firsts
Needs
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I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and... well... it really sucked. It was a plotless, clichéd mess.
Patrick Rothfuss / Writer
Fantasy Novels
Firsts
School
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At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.
Robert Benchley / Humorist
Casting
Fifteen
Firsts
Hands
Joy
Power Money World
Joys
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The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.
Charles Baxter / Author
Book
Firsts
Trying
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You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.
C. S. Lewis / Novelist
Firsts
Thirds
Two
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The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.
Andy Grove / Businessman
Change
Firsts
Two
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I came up and was a first-round draft pick and there was a lot of hype and a lot of expectation, and I enjoyed that. Have I also seen the other side of that? Absolutely.
Pat Burrell / Baseball Player
Expectations
Firsts
Hype
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Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
Alan King / Actor
Calling
Comedy
Firsts
Hooked
Laughing
Laugh
Survive
To Survive
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Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.
Dennis Prager / Radio Host
Compromise
Firsts
Long
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There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.
Herman Kahn / Strategist
Arms
Competition
Firsts
Race
Soviet
Catch
Entirely
Extent
Surpass
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I have a big barn that I converted to my music studio, so I go there early in the morning and the first thing I do is rowing. And that's when I listen to a lot of music.
Tod Machover / Composer
Morning
Barns
Firsts
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We're now on the precipice of having a potentially much better economy, but the last thing we need to do is to go back to the policies that failed us in the first place.
Hillary Clinton / Former United States Secretary Of State
Firsts
Lasts
Needs
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The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.
Robert Louis Stevenson / Novelist
Education
Firsts
Thinking
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It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.
Wanda Sykes / Comedian
Behinds
Comedy
Firsts
Became
Behind
Confident
Forward
Instead
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I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's.
Jhonen Vasquez / Writer
Age
Firsts
Lowest
People
Age People Doing
Emails
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They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.
Gloria Steinem / Journalist
Men
War
Firsts
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First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.
Phillip E. Johnson / Law Professor
Certain
Diversity
Existence
Firsts
Living Organisms
Organisms
Theory
Various
Forms
Complex
Darwinian
Darwinian Theory
Develop
Life Forms
Tells
Types
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One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired money.
Napoleon Hill / Author
Dream
Firsts
Wish
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Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!
Michael Moore / Filmmaker
Firsts
Grateful
Mother
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Before you go further, let me tell you what a poem brings, first, you must know the secret, there is no poem to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries.
Juan Felipe Herrera / Poet
Firsts
Secret
Way
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The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.
John Ruskin / Art Critic
Delight
Firsts
Flower
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Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.
Brie Larson / Actress
Awkward
Firsts
Guitar
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
Edmund Hillary / Mountaineer
Morning
Adventurer
Everest
Firsts
May
Mount Everest
Summit
Climber
Mount
Onto
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Anybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.
Tucker Carlson / Commentator
Canada
Care
Firsts
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A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.
Francis Atterbury / Bishop Of Rochester
Firsts
Sin
Steps
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In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.
Viswanathan Anand / Chess Player
Finale
Finals
Firsts
May
Tournaments
Round
Futile
Grand
Prepare
Strategies
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My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation.
Laurie Halse Anderson / Writer
Morning
Class
Firsts
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I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.
Richard M. Nixon / 37Th U.s. President
Decision
Firsts
Mind
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I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.
Primo Levi / Chemist
Firsts
Philosophical
Virtue
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Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.
Edward Young / Poet
Excellence
Firsts
Lasts
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Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)
Charles Stross / Writer
Fiction
Firsts
Writing
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The United States accused Syria, and because you accused you have to bring evidence [of chemical weapons], this first of all. We have to find evidences when we are there.
Bashar Al-Assad / President Of Syria
Firsts
United States
Weapons
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Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.
Gus Van Sant / Film Director
Firsts
Scene
Stories
Checking
First Of All
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3D really altered the way I shot the movie completely, and it was exciting because, after 20 years of filmmaking, I felt like I was making my first movie, all over again.
Paul W. S. Anderson / Film Director
Firsts
Way
Years
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My first season Butch Bouchard accidentally sent me to the hospital for three days with a concussion, but I never backed away from Butch or anyone else after I came back.
Ted Lindsay / Ice Hockey Player
Firsts
Nhl
Three
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I would love to get an international version of Riding Shotgun going, because that's what I've been angling at ever since I wanted to do a travel show in the first place.
Zach Anner / Comedian
Firsts
Riding
Shotguns
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I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.
Randa Abdel-Fattah / Writer
Firsts
Guy
Want
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Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.
Mitchell Burgess / Writer
Brother
Firsts
Legs
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This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels.
Liza Campbell / Artist
Art
Firsts
Stories
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There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."
Stephen Leacock / Writer
Running
Firsts
Succeed
Trying
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Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.
Joe Murray / Animator
Running
Firsts
Hypnosis
Normal
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First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what YOU are made of.
Zig Ziglar / Author
Firsts
Life Is
Would Be
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Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.
Boy George / Singer-Songwriter
Band
Firsts
Lemmings
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When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.
Catherine Zeta-Jones / Actress
Charming
Firsts
Rome
Sean
Thinking
Anticipated
Connery
Met
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