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"La dernie' re chose qu'on trouve en faisant un ouvrage, est de savoir celle qu'il faut mettre la premie' re. The last thing one discovers in composing a work iswhat to put first."
"The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first."
"I like to talk about very different topics. I like to jump around a lot because I don't want people to come see me and then for an hour I tell jokes about being a little person. I just don't want that to happen. I understand that it's part of me, that's the first thing that you notice and it's something that people are curious about."
"I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that."
"First you put in, then you get out."
"You have heard me say, a great many times, that there is not that man or woman in this Church, and there never was and never will be, who turn up their noses at the counsel that is given them from the First Presidency, but who, unless they repent of and refrain from such conduct will eventually go out of the Church and go to hell, every one of them"
"One thing is certain, wherever we go there is a proof that the people are keeping the commandments of the Lord, especially the first one -- to multiply and replenish the earth."
"If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections."
"The first time around as a mom, I held on really tight and I was so stressed."
"You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy."
"I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie."
"It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very dreamlike."
"My manager always preaches golf comes first."
"Sometimes the concept you're questioning makes more sense to ask just the second one and not the first one."
"I honor Earth First for having the guts to do the things they do. It's not for me, but I understand why they do what they do. And, ultimately, we all help each other."
"If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph."
"I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl."
"Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?"
"For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope."
"O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?"
