- Handed
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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
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of traditional values I follow personally, which was hard to deal with when I first moved to L.A.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really into the first 'Spider-Man' films with Tobey Maguire, so it's pretty cool how it all came full circle.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares that 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or the press.'
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Constitutionally, a revising chamber is useful and important. The first occasion I know of in history when the Lords fulfilled this role was in 1539 when Henry VIII's act of proclamations was neutered by their lordships so effectively that the Act was repealed in 1547.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is of considerable importance that politicians stick to their commitments or do not make such commitments in the first place.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first intimation I had that the Yankees were for sale was through an item to that effect in the newspapers. The idea instantly occurred to me that here was a prospect to become interested in a major-league club at home.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
- Changed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020