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Quotes 1061 till 1080 of 1569.

  • Mrs. Humphrey Ward The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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  • Al Gore The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Huey Newton The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Billy Collins The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Salvador Dali The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The first mistake in public business is going into it.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Lester Bangs The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
    Lester Bangs
    American music journalist, critic and author (1948 - 1982)
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  • Gerard De Nerval The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the ''I,'' under another form, continues the task of existence.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Wes Craven The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
    Wes Craven
    American filmmaker, actor, and novelist (1939 - 2015)
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  • Robert Heller The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
    Robert Heller
    British management journalist, management consultant and author (1932 - 2012)
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  • Bill Burr The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage and I lost it.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Carolina Herrera The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Assata Shakur The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bobby Seale The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (2009 edition), Arc Manor LLC
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Richard P. Feynman The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • Walter Lippmann The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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