"Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really there in the first place."
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"Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?"
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"I have to be a father first and a husband first."
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"In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too."
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"If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick."
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"In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it."
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"There is nothing like first-hand evidence."
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"There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money."
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"Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted."
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"The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough."
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"There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident."
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"the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life."
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"It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat."
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"I was the first size 14 model to be featured in an ad in the magazine,I was the first size 14 model on the cover!"
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"When I went out to shoot for the first time, I thought this was going to be about the prison industrial complex, purely about prison for profit and the ways in which there's an industry making money and profiting off punishment."
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"If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before. . . . Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created."
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"Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart"
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"Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof."
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"Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing."
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"Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go."
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