- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
First Place Quotes
Reflections on why things started the way they did.
These first place quotes look back at original intentions, whether in education, history, or personal identity, asking why something happened the way it did to begin with. For related reflections, see our First collection.
- 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