Quotes with first-naming

Quotes 461 till 480 of 1516.

  • Buddy Valastro I promised my daughter I'd name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, 'Dad, what about us?' I'm gonna have to open four restaurants!
    Buddy Valastro
    American baker and reality television personality (1977 - )
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  • Al Neuharth I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
    Al Neuharth
    American businessman, author, and columnist
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  • Benjamin Franklin I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Alan Parsons I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
    Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996)
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Woody Allen I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Arsene Wenger I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Abba Eban I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Ang Lee I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton I think the first duty of society is justice.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Alfred de Vigny I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Burning Spear I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Dolly Parton I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
    Dolly Parton
    American singer and songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • A. J. P. Taylor I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next?
    A Personal History (1983) p. 301
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Anne Perry I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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W. Bruce Cameron I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Al Sharpton I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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