- Everything
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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
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first started reading about Barack and taking notes when he won the Iowa caucuses in January 2008 because I was embarrassed that, at that point, I knew virtually nothing about him.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites.
- Nov 07, 2020
Write first, worry later.
- Grey
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job in advertising was actually in the mailroom of Grey Advertising in Sydney.
- Remembered
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't usually get a compound word where the first part is a slang thing and the second part is a rather ordinary or formal thing - they don't usually mix - but 'gobsmacked' is a perfect exception to that rule.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020