Quotes with first

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  • William Arthur Ward Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Bernard Lown Every historic period has had its Cassandras. Our era is the first in which prophecies of doom stem from objective scientific analyses.
    A Prescription for Hope
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  • Bradley A. Smith Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Every noble work is at first impossible.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Harper Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.
    About interviews
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Adrian Lyne Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Bill Medley Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Brendan Dooling Every young male actor dreams of being James Bond in an action movie. And that's their first role. But the truth is, when it comes down to it, that's not relatable.
    Brendan Dooling
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Pearl Bailey Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Bonnie Bassler Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Benny Blanco Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Eugène Delacroix Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Paul Theroux Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
    Paul Theroux
    American travel writer and novelist (1941 - )
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  • Ben Elliot Fastidious attention to detail makes the difference between an OK service and first class service.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • John W. Foster Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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