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"When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect."
"For any budding cricketers listening, do you have any superstitious routines before an innings, like putting one pad on first and then the other one?"
"Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals."
"If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared."
"One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: 'I'm not sure I agree with all this, but I must say this is the first book I've read by a Christian that didn't treat me like I was an idiot.'"
"I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term."
"You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography."
"The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error."
"Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to."
"When I first started really playing, in '98, I was super excited to see all the people I grew up watching. ... I loved Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, and Pete Sampras."
"I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career."
"An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another."
"One must first learn to fall if one would fly."
"By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust."
"Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely."
"Great work is always shunned at first."
"Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step."
"Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience."
"The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don't lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery."
"Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve."
