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First Quotes
On beginnings, and what a 'first' really changes.
The quotes gathered here treat 'first' loosely: a rookie athlete crediting the teammates who set the tone early, a filmmaker's take on what should scare an audience right away, and a physicist weighing what can and can't be known first. If early relationships resonate, see our First Love.
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- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought, 'Please don't fall over, please don't fall over, please don't fall over!'
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I won the first world title in 2011 I was practising six, seven or even more hours a day.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ah-rah-han, the first Buddhist apostle of Burma, under the patronage of King Anan-ra-tha-men-zan, disseminated the doctrines of atheism and taught his disciples to pant after annihilation as the supreme good.
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- Nov 07, 2020