"That which shrinks must first expand."
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"By not claiming to be first in the world one can rule."
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"The overall concept comes first and then that informs the product, the shoot and how we communicate it. Everything comes back to the concept. It all gets thought about at the same time."
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"The first item I designed for a real person was when I was about 10 and I made my first item of clothing for myself."
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"The first design I created was a circular skirt for my Barbie when I was 7."
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"Valour needs first strength, then a weapon."
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"When I recorded my first album, my ego didn't let me believe that what I was gonna say on the mic, anyone would really care about. But then when I found out that they did, I started to take it more seriously."
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"I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness."
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"Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil."
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"The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison."
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"The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires."
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"The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one."
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"As a writer, I know that - you write a first draft and then put it in a drawer. The longer I can put it in a drawer, the better off I am. So I structure my writing so that things can sit."
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"We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves."
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"The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction"
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"For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me."
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"Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen."
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"You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started."
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"FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough."
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"Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game."
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