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"We're not going to stop trying to live big. It's about transforming your stress so that it doesn't take over. The first step is to realize that it is there and that you are trying to outrun your fear."
"Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public."
"Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery."
"He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away."
"It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read the script and thought it was brilliant."
"I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career."
"When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV."
"Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project."
"Like a virgin, touched for the very first time."
"Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints."
"I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary."
"Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts."
"Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them."
"The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness."
"Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you."
"There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping."
"A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt."
"Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation."
"It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples."
"The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life."
