"That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit."
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"The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you."
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"Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after."
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"I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet."
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"We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face."
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"The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty."
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"I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth."
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"While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves."
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"He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it."
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"Awareness is always the first step."
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"Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States."
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"I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!"
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"If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy."
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"Those who have been made great have first suffered."
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"Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there."
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"If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta."
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"I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the first and last time. I learned that it wasn't."
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"What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first."
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"I worked on Crash, the TV series, some Disney shows like Get Connected, Brain Surge & iCarly on Nickelodeon, but Make It Pop is my very first lead role in a series."
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"Whomever speaks first gives up some power."
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