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  • Carlos Santana Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said Oh man, this is the stuff. It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • H. G. Bohn Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.
    H. G. Bohn
    British publisher
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  • Bruce Springsteen Born down in a dead man's town;
    The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
    You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
    'Til you spend half your life just covering up.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • George Santayana Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Benjamin Graham Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII,Ultimate Uses of the Stored Unit
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Candice Swanepoel Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.
    Candice Swanepoel
    South African model and philanthropist (1988 - )
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  • Billy Eckstine Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Zig Ziglar Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Alan Watts But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Barney Frank But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Brandon Routh But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Anselm Kiefer But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.
    Anselm Kiefer
    German painter and sculptor (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Albert Maltz By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Can you imagine, in 2030, taking a space cruise on the very ship that carried the first human beings to Mars? I can't believe that people wouldn't line up for that possibility.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • David Garrick Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
    David Garrick
    English actor and playwright (1717 - 1779)
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  • William Shakespeare Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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