- Myself
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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.
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- Portfolio
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
- Michael Jordan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've just signed a contract to make records in Nashville. It won't amount to much at first, but after a year or so, I will really be in the money.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the threat of a pandemic is different from that of a nerve agent, in that a disease can spread uncontrollably, long after the first carrier has succumbed.
- Nov 07, 2020
I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020