Firsts famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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The first rule about a black woman’s hair is you don’t talk about a black woman’s hair. And the second rule is you don’t ever touch a black woman’s hair without getting written permission first.
-- Ben Aaronovitch -
If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
-- Ben Affleck -
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
-- Ben Affleck -
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People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
-- Ben Elton -
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.
-- Ben Harper -
Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse
-- Ben Harper -
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Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
-- Ben Jipcho -
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.
-- Ben Kingsley -
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship
-- Ben Lindsey -
My first scene was a streaking scene, I had to streak at a footy game, thats how I get introduced.
-- Ben Nicholas -
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Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.
-- Ben Parr -
My favorite Bond films are the really early ones, the first ones in fact, like 'Dr. No' and 'From Russia with Love.'
-- Ben Whishaw -
The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.
-- Benedict of Nursia -
He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.
-- Benedict of Nursia -
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And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.
-- Benedict of Nursia -
Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.
-- Benedict of Nursia -
The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
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Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.
-- Bernadette Peters -
The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
-- Bernadette Peters -
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
-- Bernard Bailyn -
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.
-- Bernard Cornwell -
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In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.
-- Bernard Crick -
I am sad that the LDK has chosen not to participate in that first meeting. They are unhappy about the current composition of the council.
-- Bernard Kouchner -
It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity...Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him.'
-- Bernard Lazare -
God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the first principle of all things, there can be no real composition whatever in God. Now, in an utterly simple being there can be nothing that is not that simple being itself. In God, therefore, whatever really is, is the same as God, is the same as that which is, is the same as that which subsists, and hence necessarily subsists.
-- Bernard Lonergan -
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First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
-- Bernard Malamud -
First learn to love yourself, and then you can love me.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.
-- Bernhard Langer -
Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon -
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Sometimes kissing is better than sex. Especially kissing someone for the first time
-- Bert McCracken -
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Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.
-- Bertrand Meyer -
Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!
-- Bertrand Meyer -
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
-- Bertrand Russell -
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Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.
-- Beth Behrs -
The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult.
-- Beth Gibbons -
I'm very into the first production of the show
-- Beth Henley -
Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.
-- Beth Kephart -
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Getting back on the surfboard after the [shark] attack was the hardest thing and I did it! After that, the hardest thing was my first competition.
-- Bethany Hamilton -
My whole life has been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that let's you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap.
-- Bette Midler -
Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.
-- Betty Dodson -
I don't feel that because I'm First Lady, I'm very different from what I was before. It can happen to anyone. After all, it has happened to anyone.
-- Betty Ford -
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I had thought I would hate being First Lady... I loved it.
-- Betty Ford -
First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain.
-- Betty Jane Wylie -
Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.
-- Betty Smith -
It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.
-- Betty Smith -
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The first show I ever worked on was The Killing, which was a whodunit crime show.
-- Bex Taylor-Klaus -
The first time we made love, I wasn't sober, and you told me you loved me over and over.
-- Bif Naked -
The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.
-- Big Boi -
Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.
-- Bill Bryson -
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True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.
-- Bill Byrd -
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
-- Bill Cosby -
Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.
-- Bill Cosby -
To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.
-- Bill Crawford -
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It's easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place.
-- Bill Loguidice -
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
-- Bill Moyers -
Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.
-- Bill Press -
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If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.
-- Bill Shankly -
When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's something I'm gonna' learn here? If I feel like it's something I've done before, then what's the incentive for me to do it?
-- Bill Skarsgard -
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
-- Bill Vaughan -
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I like computers. It's the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.
-- Bill Vaughan -
The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
-- Bill Wyman -
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
-- Billie Jean King -
The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again.
-- Billy Campbell -
All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.
-- Billy Cannon -
A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
-- Billy Collins -
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From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.
-- Billy Crystal -
Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.
-- Billy Gardell -
Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
-- Billy Gibbons -
Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.
-- Billy Graham -
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Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do.
-- Billy Graham -
There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)
-- Billy Graham -
You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.
-- Billy Higgins -
The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own
-- Billy Joe Shaver -
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And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.
-- Billy Sheehan -
If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
-- Billy Wilder -
If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
-- Billy Wilder -
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The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.
-- Bing Gordon -
If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
-- Biz Stone -
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Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
-- Biz Stone -
It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles
-- Bjarne Stroustrup -
I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
-- Bjork -
Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
-- Bjorn Borg -