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  • Calvin Trillin Marriage is not merely sharing the fettuccine, but sharing the burden of finding the fettuccine restaurant in the first place.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Antonia Fraser Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Ben Barnes Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Don DeLillo Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.
    Source: White Noise (2015) 126
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Bow Wow Me and Lucas Black are actually starring in that movie 'Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo.' It's gonna be hot and different. My first action movie, so it's gonna be great.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Oscar Wilde Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Giambattista Vico Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Camille Paglia Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Charles Dickens Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • C. S. Lewis Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
    Source: The Pilgrims Regress
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bobby Vinton Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Will Durant Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • William James Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Angela Carter Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Brit Hume MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Charles Dudley Warner Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Harry Mathews Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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