Firsts famous quotes
Last updated: Jul 22, 2024
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The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.
-- Casey Affleck -
The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.
-- Casey Kasem -
My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.
-- Casey Kasem -
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I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.
-- Cassandra Clare -
You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." “That’s too bad,†said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.
-- Cassandra Clare -
Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the U.S., but I didn't click with anyone.
-- Cat Deeley -
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.
-- Cat Power -
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I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.
-- Cate Blanchett -
I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.
-- Catherine Ashton -
When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
Our break-up had been a resounding anti-climax. I wanted to be wept over, bitterly. I wanted to be fought for. Mourned, or regretted just a little. I wanted to feel like I was someone who'd been worth having in the first place.
-- Catherine Sanderson -
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At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.
-- Catherine Tate -
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 -
I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
-- Cathy Freeman -
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Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
-- Cecil Beaton -
The Past Is Gone, And Cannot Harm You Any More & While The Future Is Fast Coming For You, It Always Flinches First. And Settles In As The Gentle Present.
-- Cecil Palmer -
To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.
-- Cecil Rhodes -
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Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
-- Cecil Rhodes -
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
-- Cecilia Bartoli -
I'm also the first straight woman to host this in 20 years, so, we finally made it, straight people.
-- Cecily Strong -
Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing ...
-- Celia Fremlin -
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The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.
-- Celine Dion -
The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.
-- Cesar Chavez -
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
-- Cesare Pavese -
I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that's my best attribute.
-- Chad Kroeger -
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I had my two front teeth knocked out by a sixth grader in first grade.
-- Chad Michael Murray -
... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.
-- Chaim Potok -
My first show was 'The King and I' when I was five.
-- Chandra Wilson -
I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out.
-- Chanel Iman -
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The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.
-- Chanel Iman -
When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
-- Charisma Carpenter -
I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. "Save the drama for your mama " I told her just like an eleven-year-old.
-- Charlaine Harris -
My first word for the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.
-- Charlaine Harris -
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Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
-- Charles A. Beard -
If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.
-- Charles Bukowski -
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That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
-- Charles Bukowski -
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.
-- Charles Churchill -
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
-- Charles Colson -
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The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.
-- Charles Cumming -
On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'â€
-- Charles Darwin -
Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.
-- Charles Darwin -
The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
-- Charles Dickens -
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You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.
-- Charles F. Haanel -
All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.
-- Charles F. Haanel -
Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.
-- Charles Garfield -
What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst, A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst, Tho' oft it prooves, in happie Hour, The first swete Dropp of our long Showre.
-- Charles Godfrey Leland -
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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.
-- Charles Inglis -
Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
-- Charles Kettering -
I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.
-- Charles Kimbrough -
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For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
-- Charles Kingsley -
The first purpose of prayer is to know God.
-- Charles L. Allen -
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
-- Charles Lamb -
No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
-- Charles Lamb -
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Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means.
-- Charles Lapworth -
Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.
-- Charles Lindbergh -
At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.
-- Charles Lindbergh -
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
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The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
-- Charles Olson -
It was while making newspaper deliveries, trying to miss the bushes and hit the porch, that I first learned the importance of accuracy in journalism.
-- Charles Osgood -
The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Charles P. Kindleberger -
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Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.
-- Charles Simic -
Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
-- Charles Simmons -
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Integrity is the first step to true greatness.
-- Charles Simmons -
Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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You'll never be a winner of souls unless you're first a weeper for souls.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.
-- Charles W. Pickering -
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Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.
-- Charles Webster Hawthorne -
Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.
-- Charlie Gehringer -
When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.
-- Charlie Parker -
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We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch.
-- Charlotte Mew -
It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
-- Chauncey Depew -
I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.
-- Chazz Palminteri -
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I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush speak.
-- Chelsea Handler -
Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
-- Cher -
The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.
-- Cher -
At first all I wanted to be was famous; then I realized that fame had nothing to do with talent. I felt that I didn't do anything quite well enough, that I was one of those people who was famous but not very talented. So I said, okay, I'll be the Dinah Shore of the Seventies, on TV all the time but nobody quite knows why.
-- Cher -
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On that very first day, when I queued up, in the thousands, I never expected to get very far
-- Cher Lloyd -
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
-- Cheryl Tiegs -
The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.
-- Chi Chi Rodriguez -
First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land
-- Chief Dan George -
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She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.
-- Chip Heath -
When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.
-- Chiwetel Ejiofor -
The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.
-- Chloe Sevigny -