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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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- Flames
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I do when I go to people's houses is look at their television, turn it on.
- Note
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a rough start when I moved to L.A. I couldn't find a job, so I couch-surfed for the first two years.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first website went up in 1995. On it I ran a feature called Ask Nicola. Readers would email me questions, I'd answer whichever took my fancy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen a few lookalikes, and that kind of freaks me out, but then I'm not the first person on the planet to have tattoos, and I'm not the first person to have hair or a tattoo sleeve.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first write melodies that will make people shiver, and then, I add the lyrics.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've met secular humanists who grew up in evangelical households, for whom 'Cosmos' was their first exposure to a scientific way of viewing the world.
- Second
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- Nov 07, 2020
It shouldn't be two separate styles between the first and second unit as much.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
On first acquaintance, the mystery of the Mayans of Guatemala can seem simply bizarre, as it was when I first encountered Maximon the god.
- Eventual
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- Nov 07, 2020