"The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare."
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"First we have to believe, and then we believe."
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"This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention."
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"The love by which we love God is the very same love with which God has first loved us."
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"Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes."
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"How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception."
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"My family really does come first. It always did and always will."
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"I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away."
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"The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which finally passed in the Senate late last year, is a throwback to the 1990s, when ENDA was first introduced; the bill wasn’t updated to the times we live in. It exempts businesses owned by religious groups."
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"In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only."
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"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love."
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"For the first seven years of my life, I listened to nothing but The Beatles."
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"It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place."
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"First thing you learnis that you'vealways got to wait"
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"In order to change your life outside, you must first change inside"
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"The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself."
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"It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable."
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"She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight."
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"First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others."
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"So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful."
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