"The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]"
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"Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor."
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"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either."
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"First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now."
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"I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result."
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"Leadership is about being a servant first."
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"When I first met Benny Goodman he wouldn't talk about anything but clarinets, mouthpieces, reeds, etc. When I tried to change the subject, he said 'But that's what we have in common. We both play clarinet.' I said, 'No, Benny, that's where we're different. You play clarinet, I play music.'"
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"Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time."
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"The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary."
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"The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so."
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"I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing."
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"Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself."
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"The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast."
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"God's first creature, which was light."
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"Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else."
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"Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent."
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"When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it."
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"The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience."
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"What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself."
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"With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor."
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