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  • Billy Dee Williams Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Right before I graduated from the national theatre school, I got the part of Roxie Hart in 'Chicago' in Copenhagen. That led to me playing it here in London. I was 26 when I came over for that. It was the first thing I did as a professional, and it is still the experience of my life.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Maris Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Douglas Adams See first, think later, then test. But always see first.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Samuel Johnson Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Napoleon Hill Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Jane Austen Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Andrew Marvell Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
    Andrew Marvell
    English poet, satirist and politician (1621 - 1678)
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  • Bobby McFerrin Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • David Ogilvy Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Tony Robbins Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Carl Safina Several groups have information evaluating seafood sustainability. I wrote the first such guide, and seafood pocket-guides and detailed evaluations of different seafoods are available for download from the group I founded, Blue Ocean Institute.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Philip Larkin Sexual intercourse began in 1963 (which was rather late for me). Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Norman Douglas Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Philip James Bailey Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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