"First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio."
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"I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first."
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"My first psychedelic experience with Aldous still directs my life today."
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"A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa."
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"The Carpetbaggers was the first big money I made. Money gave me a lot of freedom, but no matter how much you make there's always somebody chasing your ass for more."
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"Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary."
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"As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first."
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"The first bond of society is marriage."
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"The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment."
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"The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place."
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"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."
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"My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me."
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"Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer."
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"First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person."
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"First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is."
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"Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves."
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"There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't."
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"I never reread a text until I have finished the first draft. Otherwise it's too discouraging."
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"So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market."
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"A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances."
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