- Civil Disobedience
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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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- Nov 07, 2020
With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.
- Dude
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first signing bonus was 3,500 bucks. I bought speakers and a five-disc carousel CD changer. Dude, I thought I was the wealthiest quarterback around.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I first read the script, I realized that Katie would have to be played as a rather down-to-earth person.
- Nov 07, 2020
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
- Nov 07, 2020
Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.
- Modeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.
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- Nov 07, 2020