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- Nov 07, 2020
First Place Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
We in Nigeria have seen just how difficult it is to get back stolen assets from the international financial system, such as banks that ought not have received those funds in the first place if even the most routine questions were asked.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started making money, I immediately began buying property and fixing it up. I was always searching for the next neighborhood. The first place I bought when I was 19. I found a huge loft on the Lower East Side, almost 3,500 square feet. I did it up, turned it over, and sold it.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and 'Arcadia' is the highlight of my career so far. I love the intimacy of a live theatre audience - you can really squeeze every last drop out of each scene.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.
- Obedience
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.
- Lifestyle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The band that made me want to be a musician in the first place was the Beatles. And I think John Lennon used to say something like, ‘We're just a singing group,' when he talked about the band. So that's what I say about Mr. Big - we're a singing group!
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always say that Essence was the first place that I felt I was a pretty black girl.
- Cute
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first place I went in America was Boca Raton, and I thought it was awesome. It was spring break, and there were tons of young people and cute Americans in Speedos.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of the world, it was the first place in which it was possible to assemble artifacts from around the world and allow people to study them.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really do feel like I'm doing what the people that elected me in the first place wanted me to do. I'm not doing it in the same fashion they thought, or that I thought, when I ran for office in 2010. But I will be doing what they wanted me to do, and that is to try to fix Washington.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the kids were growing up, they learned to be independent. I told them, 'As long as you're doing something good, it's worth pursuing.' That's why I invested in them in the first place and gave them as much as I could for their first company, Zip2.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my first trip to New York in the 1980s, the first place I wanted to visit was the Plaza Hotel, home to Kay Thompson's Eloise.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1968 when I was in high school I built a four-foot-tall remote control robot with pneumatic cylinders that operated his hands. My robot won first place at a science competition at the University of Alabama where my high school was the only African-American school represented. That was a huge moral victory.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was doing Facebook comedy videos; then I moved over to Instagram, and then I hopped on Twitter. That is where I really was a master. That was the first place where I could go viral.
- Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That's where my heart was at.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until I was pursuing my collegiate education, I was in Madurai with my parents. Bengaluru was the first place where I was independent. So, the city is very close to my heart.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drama school was the first place I learned that looks can affect your career. It was very horrible at the time. I had a lot of very bad experiences at drama school because of that, from the teachers and the students. In the end, I think it was good for me because it hardened me to the realities of the business early on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.
- Beam
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
What made me want to play drums in the first place was Led Zeppelin and The Who. My parents had their records, and I grew up listening to them with the stereo cranked.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.
- Better Ways
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.
- Authorities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saudi Arabia has been successful in preventing Houthi missiles from causing substantial damage. Yet, the inability of Saudi authorities in preventing Houthi missiles from being fired in the first place serves as an embarrassing reminder that the kingdom's leadership is unable to restrain their Iranian-backed opponent.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typically, highway bridges have about 50 years. But over in England, they have iron bridges approaching 250 years. In France, there are Roman aqueducts that are approaching 2,000 years old. So a bridge can last a very long time if it's built properly in the first place and then maintained properly.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
- American Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
They don't call it the Italian Dream or the English Dream. In America, there is the American Dream. It was the first place to give people of any social background their dream. You can achieve anything.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't been on too many winning teams - in Oakland, we were in first place most of the year, and it was pretty fun, pretty exciting.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bowdoin was the first place that I fell in love with. When I visited, I just had never been to a place with that many resources and that much access to information. That was stuff that you saw in movies. I didn't know that existed in real life.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been on 'Mastermind' - I tied for first place and then lost on the number of passes. My subject was the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy by Philip Pullman. If I did it again, I'd choose Shakespearian tragedies.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can avoid liberal candidates by filtering them out at the local level, nipping their ascension to power in the proverbial bud by assuring they don't get nominated in the first place - and we can't do that until we infiltrate the party, beginning at the most basic levels.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first place in Nashville was like 'Animal House.' The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Analysts say that one reason Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were privatized in the first place was to prevent political whims from dominating the mortgage marketplace.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason why people wear pajamas to the airport in the first place is so that they'll be comfortable during their flight. But you know, typically, air travel is 50 to 75 percent of the time you spend traveling. The rest of the time you spend in public places like airports and around other people. That's when looking good trumps comfort.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was coming to terms with my sexuality, I often felt like I needed to seek out sanctuary outside of my house, and the library was the first place I went. It was a place that I could go and seek out information and look for answers to questions that maybe I was too afraid to ask another person.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I owe a great debt to motor-racing, and the first place I went to in Europe when I was 20 was Italy, and I was extremely influenced by it in books until I got there.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.
- Exhibition
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- Nov 07, 2020
An airplane cabin isn't the first place people think of when they choose an exhibition space, but I'm all for doing things differently.
- Copies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020