- Marriage
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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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- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States' initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.
- Nov 07, 2020
Winning the first championship is a goal for any boxer, and it means a lot to reach it.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empowering people to pursue their journeys. That's our first mission. Put people into an environment where they can do that, and that creates the energy.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first painting I remember selling was 'Panthera.' I made it while I was in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the museum actually purchased it directly from me.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Age of Adaline' was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had my first stereo when I turned 12, and every two weeks, I would save up money and buy one CD.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my first book deal when I was in college, but it was published in Germany, and I could never actually read it.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
My very first sport was soccer. I used to play in goal, but after I was hit the face with the ball a couple of times, I was done with soccer.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness.
- First Term
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020