Quotes with first-person

Quotes 2041 till 2060 of 2595.

  • Bianca Lawson The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God.' Because when you're watching things on TV, you think it's like a fantasy. But then to actually do it and then see yourself, it's like 'Oh my God.'
    Bianca Lawson
    American actress (1979 - )
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  • Bill Cosby The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Cat Stevens The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Florence Nightingale The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
    Florence Nightingale
    English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910)
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  • Sir William Osler The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Bill Viola The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Bob Woodward The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Margaret Young The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
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  • Ernest Hemingway The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
    Papa Hemingway (1966) Pt. 2, Ch. 6
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • G. Emmons The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest.
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  • Walter Bagehot The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • John Osborne The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Ferdinand Foch The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
    Ferdinand Foch
    French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland (1851 - 1929)
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  • Barbara Bush The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
    Barbara Bush: A Memoir
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Horace Walpole The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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