- Listening
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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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- Haircut
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to model and act. My first break came to me when I was at a parlour to get a haircut. The salon owner asked me if I would model for them.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in the first rehearsal.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
- Global Warming
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1980, a young Senator Al Gore held the first Congressional hearings on global warming.
- Campaign Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Citizens United v. FEC', the Supreme Court ruled that sections of the federal campaign finance law known as McCain-Feingold imposed unconstitutional restrictions on the First Amendment rights of corporations.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.K. needs more first class studio space to encourage the growth of the film and TV sector.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020