"Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure)."
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"He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business."
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"The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching."
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"When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking it again, for the first few sentences you'll find yourself in very strange shape, because you're still the person who was speaking the first language. But if you keep speaking that language, you will become the person who corresponds to it."
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"I would advise anyone who is at the start of a rest ritual like the Sabbath, to take it slowly and grow incrementally into it. Recognize that it will be hard at first. It's a discipline but then it is a true and deep joy."
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"I want God to be first in my life, so I'm putting Him first in my life today."
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"Don't give away to others what you have not first given away at home."
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"The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first."
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"Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do."
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"Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery."
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"Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them." Mark Twain "...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written."
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"I can't imagine you not saying a word," said Marcus."I think you'd go crazy first."
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"I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus"
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"My first open mic was fantastic. I crushed. And my second mic was as bad as my first one was good."
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"I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman."
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"We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands."
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"How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds"
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"I don't know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you'll be the first to find out."
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"Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left."
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"The funny thing is that Sydney, who worked on the first film [Tron], developed a bike that had an exposed rider, but they couldn't do it because the computers weren't fast enough, so they gave it a roof, which became the iconic one. Ironically what we do now is basically what they envisioned in the first one but couldn't do technically. I mean this a full on homage in every aspect."
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