"I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid."
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"Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure."
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"You have my word. If you return with me, you won't be harmed. I'd die first."
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"Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding."
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"Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible."
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"The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore."
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"Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you."
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"'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors."
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"The first thing we do when we're born is we breathe in, and we cry. And the last thing we do when we die is we breathe out, and other people cry."
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"A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive."
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"If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose."
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"A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them."
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"To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life."
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"Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious."
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"The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks."
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"Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there."
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"If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later."
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"A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation."
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"Do you believe in first love - or should I pass by again?"
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"My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand."
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