"Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]"
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"I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped."
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"I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play."
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"I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second."
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"The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do."
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"For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted."
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"That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her."
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"One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal; they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first."
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"When I first tried out some hash, smoked some then. And I'll do it again, if only I had some cash."
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"The first one, we’ll name Blue."
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"They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie."
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"Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore."
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"For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad."
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"I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him."
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"My first acting job was a Breck commercial."
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"I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldnt do it, but it was probably the best thing Ive ever done."
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"To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer."
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"I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity."
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"When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time."
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"First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind."
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