- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Crusades
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom that had been interrupted by the great schism of the Greek and Roman Churches.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or practice... but because of his omnipresent images.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making a strong first impression is as important as ever, especially when meeting face-to-face.
- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take pride in the fact that I was the first Hispanic artist to really crack the English market.
- Sing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I released my first album, I've tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020