Quotes with first-person

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  • Leonard Bernstein A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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  • Gregory Nunn A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
    Gregory Nunn
    American golf player (1955 - )
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  • Mary Little A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.
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  • Stephen Hawking A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Billy Corgan About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.
    Out on a Limb. Details Magazine. October 1996
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Gene Brown Accept good advice gracefully—as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
    Gene Brown
    American author and editor (1942 - )
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  • Albert Ellis Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • William James Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Tryon Edwards Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Caroline B. Cooney Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
    Caroline B. Cooney
    American author
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  • George F. Will Actually, there is only one ''first question'' of government, and it is ''How should we live?'' or ''What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?''
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Lord George Byron Adversity is the first path to truth.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Brent Scowcroft After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Bruce Willis After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Bill Nye After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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