Quotes with first-hand

Quotes 221 till 240 of 1835.

  • Bruce Vilanch As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Bruce Lee As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bobby Wallace As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.
    Bobby Wallace
     
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  • Francis Bacon As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Jeremy Collier As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Asne Seierstad As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.
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  • Albert Camus At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Brit Morin At Brit + Co, our mission is to unlock creativity, so we look for future employees that actively flex their creative muscles. The design of your resume is the first way to let me know more about your aesthetic.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Bill Kreutzmann At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
    Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 237
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Carol Berg At one of the first science fiction conventions I ever went to, I saw a guy wearing a sandwich board promoting his book. Count me out of that one.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg At the end of the day, leaving WrestleMania, having my hand raised, beating Brock Lesnar... I'd say it was a pretty successful tenure.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Edward Rowland Sill At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!
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  • Aldous Huxley At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Goldberg At this time, the only thing that would get me back in the ring is something that would positively impact those in need. If selling out another major event would allow me to bring a ship full of supplies to hand out to those in need, I'd say that would be very significant.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carol Bartz Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Butch Trucks Back when Napster first came along, I started telling everybody Napster was like shooting yourself in the foot because you're stealing music. The record companies don't pay for us to make records - the bands do.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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