Firsts famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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Sexism goes so deep that at first it's hard to see; you think it's just reality.
-- Alix Kates Shulman -
In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.
-- Allan Nairn -
If you would be a writer, first be a reader
-- Allan W. Eckert -
If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.
-- Allen Carr -
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She watched the first episode and she was like, 'This is feminism?' And then by the end of the season, she was like, 'This is feminism.' The tone changed completely. She was really psyched about it.
-- Allison Williams -
It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.
-- Ally Carter -
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First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail
-- Ally Carter -
There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.
-- Ally Condie -
A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.
-- Alphonse Karr -
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
-- Alphonse Karr -
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For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.
-- Alphonso Jackson -
You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in everything to seek Him alone and His glory.
-- Alphonsus Rodriguez -
I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
-- Alton Brown -
I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.
-- Alva Myrdal -
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It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction.
-- Alvin Boyd Kuhn -
If we don't know that there is such a person as God, we don't know the first thing (the most important thing) about ourselves, each other and our world. This is because the most important truths about us and them, is that we have been created by the Lord, and utterly depend upon him for our continued existence.
-- Alvin Plantinga -
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.
-- Alvin Toffler -
You have to be happy with yourself first of all - that's the most important thing.
-- Aly Michalka -
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First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great
-- Alyssa Milano -
Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
-- Ama Ata Aidoo -
Some people like to focus on other aspects of my life, but first and foremost I am a dedicated and top swimmer.
-- Amanda Beard -
His lips brushed against mine. Delicately at first, almost testing to see if this was real.
-- Amanda Hocking -
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When I was first introduced to the music of Jacques Brel, I was totally floored. I had never heard anything as intelligent or sexy or angry as his music.
-- Amanda McBroom -
No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.
-- Amanda Righetti -
For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
When I die, I will return to where I first came from. Back to the stars.
-- Amani -
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When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes -
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.
-- Amelia Earhart -
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Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.
-- Amelie Mauresmo -
I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.
-- Amelie Nothomb -
Every adventure requires a first step. Trite but true, even here.
-- American McGee -
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
-- Aminatta Forna -
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Consciousness comes first; it is the ground of all being. Everything else, including matter, is a possibility of consciousness. And consciousness chooses out of these possibilities all the events we experience.
-- Amit Goswami -
Looking beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.
-- Amit Ray -
Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.
-- Amit Ray -
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God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.
-- Amy Carmichael -
If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-- Amy Carmichael -
Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.
-- Amy Chua -
I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.
-- Amy Grant -
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I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.
-- Amy Hempel -
That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.
-- Amy Neftzger -
Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
-- Amy Tan -
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We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
-- Amy Tan -
The rhetoric is the first step, it coarsens attitudes
-- Amy Waldman -
I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.
-- Amy Winehouse -
First rule about vampires, don`t believe anything you read.
-- An Na -
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The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.
-- Anabel Jensen -
Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.
-- Anais Nin -
When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.
-- Anais Nin -
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
-- Anais Nin -
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In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control
-- Anatoly Karpov -
Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF
-- Anatoly Karpov -
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
-- André Aciman -
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It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.
-- Andre Breton -
It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.
-- Andre Breton -
It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
-- Andre Breton -
People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.
-- Andre Carson -
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First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
-- Andre Malraux -
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
-- Andre Malraux -
The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
-- Andre Malraux -
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
-- Andre Malraux -
I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.
-- Andre Rieu -
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
-- Andre Weil -
Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.
-- Andrea Arnold -
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Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written.
-- Andrea Brown -
I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.
-- Andrea Jung -
Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.
-- Andrea Jung -
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I am an artist first and a photographer second.
-- Andres Serrano -
Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
When I first saw Emma Stone, it was like I woke up.
-- Andrew Garfield -
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Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
I can say for the first time that I am not afraid, and while this is a feeling that can undoubtedly change with time, I feel cradled by this universe and the immense love that comes from it.
-- Andrew McMahon -
I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
-- Andrew Motion -
The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.
-- Andrew Sarris -
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Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.
-- Andrew Schneider -
When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.
-- Andrew Sean Greer -
Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage ( including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.
-- Andrew Tobias -
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
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At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
-- Andrzej Wajda -
Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.
-- Andy Garcia -
My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority.
-- Andy Grove -
In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before
-- Andy Hertzfeld -
I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
-- Andy Hertzfeld -
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American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.
-- Andy Rooney -
Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome.
-- Andy Sawford -
There should be a course in first grade on love.
-- Andy Warhol -
I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more.
-- Andy Warhol -