Quotes with first-hand

Quotes 1761 till 1780 of 1835.

  • Robert Pollok With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out.
    Robert Pollok
     
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  • Butch Trucks With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
    Source: Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bob Ross Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Harry S. Truman Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Carroll Quigley Without communities, no infant will be sufficiently socialized... and that occurs in the first four or five years of life....The first two years are important....of vital importance. He has to be loved, above all he has to be talked to.
    Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Anzia Yezierska Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut - a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Jean Paul Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Oscar Wilde Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Remy de Gourmont Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Bernie Worrell Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.
    Bernie Worrell
    American keyboardist and record producer (1944 - 2016)
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  • Camille Pissarro Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Albert Camus Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Boris Pasternak Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.
    Source: As quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Bill Pascrell Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Beau Bridges Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Barbara Hershey Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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