"John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet."
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"Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music."
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"I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing."
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"When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out."
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"Ask for the impossible, then settle instead for what you really wanted in the first place."
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"I wanted more firsts with Tod. But all I had left was a handful of lasts."
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"I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped."
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"In order to have peace, we must first have trust."
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"This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again."
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"That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves."
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"On the first night it was on telly, Channel 4 had 17 complaints."
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"When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong."
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"I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project."
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"Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose."
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"The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty."
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"Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you."
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"An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought."
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"Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first."
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"The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds."
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"Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament."
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