"You gotta be hungry for it. You’ve got to put everything you got on it. EVERYTHING! Every second. You have to be the first one in line. That’s how leaders are born."
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"Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches."
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"As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract."
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"A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it."
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"You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative."
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"The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together."
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"In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down, and I thought, What a wonderful thing; perhaps I can make some small contribution to this process, myself."
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"One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others."
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"There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken."
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"The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred."
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"Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars."
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"We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden."
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"He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard."
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"Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution."
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"If you have the ability to love, love yourself first."
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"When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful."
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"Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally."
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"Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do."
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"I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite."
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"You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind."
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