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"I did do some things different [in John Wick 2], but it's different on basically the same things. Because I have the background from the first film, it was really the first time I was doing judo and jiu-jitsu."
"By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run; therefore I am."
"The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second."
"Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me."
"I am the first model in the history of Victoria's Secret shows who walked the show wearing her TWA. Hence, I felt very special when I actually got the request to walk the show wearing my TWA."
"Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it."
"Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you."
"The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances."
"What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?"
"All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy."
"Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first."
"The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor."
"We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know."
"The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to."
"Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine."
"The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on."
"God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third."
"In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny."
"The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence."
"I always say, if you think it’s over the top then tell me where the top is first. I don’t think anyone can. But if you can tell me where the top is then I’ll tell you whether or not I’m over it."
