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Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying.
Here's the thing: every office I've run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.
When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas.
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.'
I'm quite a reserved person, a bit shy at first when I don't know someone. I like to have a laugh and a joke; people have seen that in me.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic.
Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.
I dislike religion quite intensely. It's been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.
It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
The world has only one border. It is called humanity. The differences between us are small compared to our shared humanity. Put humans first.
If you want to deal with an epidemic - crime or health - the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.
I am a very approachable and personable person, and I always put myself last. Whether it's family or friends, I always think about them first.
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.
This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
Good grooming and hygiene are essential. It's never too early to start being concerned about your appearance - first impressions are everything.
I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.
The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.
I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
God did not want me to be a blind beggar on the street, alone and bitter. He gave me music, first to be my companion and then to be my salvation.
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.
There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.
Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
When I was 16 or 17, I remember kissing one of my first girlfriends, Kim Anderson, under a stairwell at Disneyland. I'll never forget that feeling.
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
Whenever the strength of God is not recognized as the source of our strength, we are breaking the First Commandment: Do not have any gods before me.
I have said many times: We have self-esteem or don't, based on how we were raised! Self-esteem is normally produced in your first 7-8 years of life.
My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.