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Quotes 521 till 540 of 1616.

  • Allan Carr I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • William Shakespeare I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Billie Jean King I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
    Billie Jean
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Anne Tyler I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Adolf Galland I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Julius Caesar I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • William Shakespeare I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Muriel Spark I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Toni Morrison I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • A. A. Milne I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.
    War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Jackie Kennedy I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
    Jackie Kennedy
    First Lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1929 - 1994)
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  • Bette Davis I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bill Rancic I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bill Engvall I'm a California Angels fan because that's the first game my dad took me to see, and they stuck with me.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Al Goldstein I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Busta Rhymes I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Barbara Bush I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we're eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don't come back? What if they stay there?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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