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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.
- Breath
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.
- Nov 07, 2020
What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
- Distinguished
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.
- Retirement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.
- Divine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made my final collection in college in London using Irish handwoven wool. That is how I discovered Ireland first; I just fell in love with it, really.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020