Quotes with first-naming

Quotes 541 till 560 of 1516.

  • Burnie Burns If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Robert Schumann If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
    Robert Schumann
    German composer (1810 - 1856)
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  • Carrie P. Meek If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Anita Roddick If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Brisbane If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
    Arthur Brisbane
    American newspaper editor (1864 - 1936)
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  • Allan Carr If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • William Law If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
    William Law
    English priest (1686 - 1761)
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  • Brendan Fraser If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Richard A. Nelson If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed.
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  • Bill Nunn If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach of first getting photos and an agent. I think you should start with the work, and the other stuff will follow. As with 'opportunity knocks,' you have to be ready.
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  • Wendell Phillips If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Carl Sagan If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Horace If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Horace If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Lao-Tzu If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Marilyn vos Savant If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
    Marilyn vos Savant
    American magazine columnist, author and lecturer (1946 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Burton Richter In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Bunker Roy In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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