- Fading
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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
When I saw Santana for the first time, I was really inspired. Same with Stevie Ray Vaughn.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to believe that 'The Apprentice' was a big hit because I was such a superstar in the first season.
- Nov 07, 2020
My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
- Graduation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
- Disputed
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- Nov 07, 2020
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first introduction I had with English football was in the FA Cup in the early '80s.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020