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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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- Nov 07, 2020
When I did the first 'Oxygene' in the vinyl days, I had a structure in mind divided in 2 parts fitting the A&B sides of an album.
- Choice
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I did the first 'Oxygene' on an 8 tracks tape recorder with very few instruments, with no other choice than being minimalist.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.
- Person
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Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.
- Common
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
- Imagination
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The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'll get the biggest bang for each buck by paying off the highest interest rate debt in your portfolio first, while making minimum payments on the remainder. It's called the avalanche method, and it gets you out of debt cheapest and fastest.
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My first gig was 'The Outsiders.' I was 14 there. And probably one of the more jading experiences in my whole life.
- Nov 07, 2020