"The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman."
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"I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good."
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"There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation."
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"If at first you don't succeed, redefine success."
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"Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development."
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"The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task."
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"The first and last frosts are the worst."
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"First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress."
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"Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?"
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"But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower."
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"The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies."
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"The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane"
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"At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing."
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"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."
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"When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural."
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"We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking."
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"Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out."
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"Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich."
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"If America has a civic religion, the First Amendment is its central article of faith."
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"Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman."
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