First-Rate Quotes - Page 1

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland / Actress
Graduation
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
Positive
Wisdom
Second Rate
Yourself
Always
Somebody
Version
Else
First-Rate
Instead
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald / Author
Education
Intelligence
Time
Ability
Function
Ideas
Mind
Positive Thinking
Two
Same
Still
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Hold
Opposed
Retain
Same Time
Test
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham Maslow / Psychologist
Food
Creative
Creativity
Painting
Second Rate
Soup
First-Rate
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As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there.
Scott Weiland / Musician
Horrible
Jail
First-Rate
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I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
Richard Strauss / Composer
Inspiring
Music
Composer
Second Chance
Second Rate
First-Rate
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Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.
Dominick Dunne / Writer
First-Rate
Producer
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First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
Leo Rosten / Teacher
Business
Firsts
People
Second Rate
First-Rate
Hire
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We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
Evelyn Waugh / Writer
Class
Grades
Literature
School
Good School Grades
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Leading
Schools
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. Forbes / Journalist
Credit
Firsts
Satisfaction
Truck
Truck Driver
Driver
Executive
First-Rate
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A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Firsts
Indispensable
Initiative
Recognition
Theatre
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Performance
Receives
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We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.
Azim Premji / Business Person
Engineering
Faculty
Institute
First-Rate
Leading
Our People
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You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.
Maurice Ravel / Composer
Composing
Firsts
Gershwin
Might
Rate
Ravel
Spontaneity
First-Rate
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It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.
Robert Gottlieb / Writer
Critics
Disagree
Fascinating
First-Rate
Violently
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Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.
Gardner Dozois / Fictioneer
Thrill
First-Rate
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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
Arnold Bennett / Film Writer
Firsts
Organizer
Planning
Unexpected
First-Rate
Hurry
Margin
Sleeve
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When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'
David Morrell / Novelist
Second Rate
Version
First-Rate
Mantra
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I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.
Joe Bastianich / Restaurateur
Bottles
Comparison
Firsts
Thinking
Undervalued
First-Rate
Grand
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It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.
Martin Rees / Astronomer
Science Fiction
Second Rate
Stimulating
First-Rate
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I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don't print them in 'The New York Times.'
Gore Vidal / Writer
Critics
New York Times
Print
Literary
First-Rate
Hidden
Universities
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Guantanamo Bay is a first-rate detention facility that's kept terrorists off the battlefield and kept America safe. It's critical role in our national security cannot be overstated.
Tom Cotton / United States Representative
Critical
Detention
Facility
Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay
National Security
Battlefield
First-Rate
Overstated
Terrorists
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What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Doris Lessing / Novelist
Inspirational
Love
Capable
Firsts
Needs
Second Rate
Terrible
Love Work Your
Love Work Better
Pretend
First-Rate
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Every good war film, if you want to use that phrase - I don't think it's a good phrase, but if you want to use that phrase - every good film, a first-rate film about war, is an anti-war movie.
Michael Cimino /
Anti War
First-Rate
Good Film
Phrase
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If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan /
Critical
Feedback
Second Rate
Basis
Daily Basis
First-Rate
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No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything.
Jonathan Kozol / Writer
Factors
Almost Everything
First-Rate
No Question
Transform
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne / Author
Happiness
Happy
Intelligence
Integrity
Majority
Mind
Second Rate
Thinking
First-Rate
Minority
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More than anything else, a budget request is a statement of national priorities; a clear enumeration of what our country needs to grow its economy and remain in the future the first-rate power it is today.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Clear
Economy
Priorities
Request
Anything Else
Budget
First-Rate
More Than Anything
Remain
Statement
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One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz.
Nicholas Kristof /
Anecdotes
Athlete
Journalism
Narrative
Traits
Confirm
First-Rate
Ford
Plug
Portray
Thus
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When I was director of public prosecutions, from 2008 to 2013, I had a first-rate counter-terrorism team, who worked closely with the police and the security and intelligence services to defeat and disrupt terrorism.
Keir Starmer / Barrister
Defeat
Terrorism
Closely
Disrupt
First-Rate
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. / Physician
Men
Science
Chamber
Common
Common Sense
Furniture
Patient
Plenty
Good Man More
First-Rate
Piece
Upper
Worse
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I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.
Wes Anderson / Film Director
Eagles
Guy
Jungle
Play
Somewhere
Crashes
Eagle
Edward
Master
First-Rate
Norton
Plane
Plays
Scout
Techniques
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Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.
Jon Landau / Record Producer
Believe
Franklin
Jerry
Rays
Records
Solomon
Turner
Voice
Wilson
Aretha
Atlantic
Baker
Believes
Certainly
Charles
First-Rate
Joe
La
Pickett
Ray
Voices
Worked
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. That's what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience.
Jon Lovett /
Function
Inexperience
Confident
First-Rate
Hold
Opposed
Retain
Same Time
Test
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My family is blue-collar - coal miners and steelworkers. My father was an automobile mechanic, and us boys were brought up to work. I used to pump gasoline at 11 cents a gallon. I thought I would like to be a first-rate mechanic; a respected, hard-working man.
F. Murray Abraham / Actor
Automobile
Blue Collar
Cents
Coal
Gasoline
Mechanic
Miners
Family Work Man
First-Rate
Gallon
Hard-Working
Pump
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I do believe that we've a responsibility to try to acknowledge the range, both geographic and graphic, of what's happening in poetry in English. I'm interested in poems that are first-rate. After that, I'm not too concerned if they come from Queens or Queensland.
Paul Muldoon / Poet
Queens
Acknowledge
Concerned
Graphic
Range
Responsibility
Interested
First-Rate
Geographic
Happening
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