"I remember the first time I fell in love. That rush is just overwhelming and you don't think there's ever going to be anything like it."
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"Until you take the first step forward, failure remains reassuringly impossible."
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"My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars."
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"Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first."
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"The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first."
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"Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet."
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"Start with scout locations first."
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"First causes are outside the realm of science."
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"First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art."
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"There is never a specific theme or anything I have interest in. Really, I make decisions based on decisions that are made by other people and whatever is presented to me, and I do it on a first come, first serve basis, and go from there."
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"It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it."
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"Russia's Vladimir Putin appeared in public for the first time after a mysterious 10-day absence. Putin said it took him that long to recover from the finale of 'The Bachelor.'"
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"At the economic summit in China, Vladimir Putin is being accused of flirting with the first lady of China. Then again, Putin does have a history of not respecting boundaries."
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"I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book."
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"He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show."
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"He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come."
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"On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached."
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"I got my first flash of titties from a Venezuelan hooker."
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"In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson."
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"Today the Washington Post did an article; they compared the 2008 presidential election to the 1932 presidential election. They did a comparison, mainly because 1932 was the first time John McCain ran for president."
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