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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
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lyft is focused on the customer - the driver - as GM is. I've talked many times about our goal being, 'How we can put the customer at the center of what we do so we earn customers for life?' It's a very common goal of putting the customer first.
- Housewife
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my first jobs was as a recipe tester for a PR agency. One week, the editor of 'Housewife' magazine called my boss and asked me to write a column - the cookery editor had gone away on a press trip. I was terrified.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 5 years old, I got my first record. It was 'Flatt & Scruggs' Greatest Hits.' The second was 'The Fabulous Johnny Cash.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.
- Devices
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have tried to help build a framework that recaptures the First Amendment as a principle to empower all Americans, politically and personally, through access to plentiful, diverse communications spaces.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and was really drawn to.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't wait for the renewable heat incentives to come into place; we wanted to be first to provide consumers with alternative ways to heat their homes.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020