Quotes with first-born

Quotes 161 till 180 of 1905.

  • Bruce Willis After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Bill Nye After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bob Peterson After my wife and I were married, we obtained a rescue dog from a family that didn't want her anymore. She was a beautiful Collie/Shepherd mix named 'Precious.' It then came to pass that our first marital 'debate' was whether we should change the dog's name away from the same name used by the wacky villain in 'Silence of the Lambs.'
    Bob Peterson
    American filmmaker, animator and screenwriter
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  • Henry David Thoreau After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Tryon Edwards Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Caroline Lawrence Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don't get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Satchel Paige Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
    Satchel Paige
    African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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  • Raymond Chandler Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Ben Jonson All concord's born of contraries.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Tacitus All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Ezra Pound All great art is born of the metropolis.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Albert Einstein All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Oprah Winfrey All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Bee Wilson All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • David Malouf All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.
    An Imaginary Life
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • Bryan Burrough All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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