"Sometimes, when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step, you need to be the one to drive the change."
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"Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing."
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"Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident."
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"I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you."
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"Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet."
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"For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place."
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"I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and I am sure he will perform it admirably."
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"World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'"
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"I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful."
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"As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them."
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"I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time."
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"My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty water less cookware."
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"Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not borrow from the former without being observed, but were to proceed consistently, could only found a Demonology , which is incapable of any definite concept."
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"Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant."
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"It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched."
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"Anna Wintour has a reputation - she can be very intimidating - but that day [Valentino show] she was just smiling and laughing. That was my first time meeting her, and she seemed like she was having a great time. Everybody was enjoying themselves."
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"Puberty was definitely difficult for me. I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first. You read Judy Blume and you think, "This is kind of cool." But when it actually started happening to me, I was terrified."
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"I was five years old the first time I got drunk."
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"It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place."
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"I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression."
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