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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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- Poetry
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Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
- Focal
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When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it.
- American People
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The American people must be assured that no federal agency can trample their First Amendment rights.
- Edge
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We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights.
- New
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The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights.
- Humor
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I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor is the first victim of translation.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first.
- Law
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It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?
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The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.
- Postponed
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I got my first show at Blum & Poe because Paul McCarthy postponed his show, and they came to my studio and asked me if I could put together a show in two weeks.
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I was Google's first woman engineer.
- Me
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Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.
- Owl
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First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020