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"I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world."
"When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate."
"The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture."
"So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time."
"I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time."
"The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict."
"There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became."
"If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing."
"You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first."
"If you enter into the spirit of Life, you are really reproducing in yourself the qualities of the Creator of that which allows something to be manifested and created in the first place."
"I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all."
"Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last."
"Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain."
"It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless."
"It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it."
"Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted."
"The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else."
"To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next."
"I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area."
"Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more."
