Quotes with duty-first

Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 1725.

  • Billy Preston The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
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  • Sir James Goldsmith The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
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  • Fred A. Allen The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Bobby Flay The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt The first time I was on 'Johnny Carson,' I remember being so scared, but the minute he started talking to me, I felt a little more comfortable because I just knew he was going to take care of me. Hopefully, I have learned something from watching him for so many years that I can offer that to a guest.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert The first time I went to Sturgis, I remember thinking, 'This motorcycle thing, this is me.'
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Benny Green The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Billy Campbell The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
    The Buffalo Bill Megapack: 5 Classic Books About Buffalo Bill Cody (2013 edition), Wildside Press LLC
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bill Kristol The first two battles of this new era are now over. The battles of Afghanistan and Iraq has been won decisively and honorably.
    April 28, 2003
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first wealth is health.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carole Bouquet The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • A. J. P. Taylor The First World War had begun, imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
    The First World War (1963) p. 20
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Carl Van Doren The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • Bobby Scott The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bill Cosby The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • C. V. Raman The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • Bill Goldberg The Georgia Dome was my home field, brother. There's no question about it. I played my first football game there as an Atlanta Falcon.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Carolyn Murphy The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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