- Car
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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
- Avoid
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
- Nov 07, 2020
It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be the first to help disadvantaged people. What would happen if other countries decided to follow our example?
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.
- Digital
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions it now encompasses.
- Gettysburg
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- Nov 07, 2020
After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.
- Principles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
Brass bands are part of my upbringing. Brass band records were among the first records I listened to.
- Occupation
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- Nov 07, 2020