"More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures."
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"I've never given a speech without being terrified first."
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"When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled."
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"It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first."
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"In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations."
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"We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles."
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"The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened."
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"It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards."
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"Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves."
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"I remember that grand word of the Katha Upanishad - Shraddhâ or marvellous faith. An instance of Shraddha can be found in the life of Nachiketâ. To preach the doctrine of Shraddha or genuine faith is the mission of my life. Let me repeat to you that this faith is one of the potent factors of humanity and of all religions. First, have faith in yourselves."
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"But thankfully, my first album, Wide Screen, was sort of a critics darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies; I wasnt even in the running for failure!"
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"I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971."
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"The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him."
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"When I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's a drug addict,' 'this bloke f**ks all these women' because I was just making jokes about all those things already, so it made me some kind of incorruptible indefatigable, indestructible force."
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"I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him."
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"[I'll be the first one of the Smith to die.] I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths."
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"Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure."
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"First thing I do when I get up is journal, meditate, read."
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"You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91."
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"Is Donald Trump a serious candidate? The reason I ask this is, if you're going to close the Internet, realize, America, what that entails. That entails getting rid of the First amendment, ok? It's no small feat."
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