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The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.
My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.
I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.
The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.
To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.
When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.
When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.
With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.
She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.
Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.
I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.
I've always been skeptical of those television healers who are bald. If I had that gift, that'd be the first thing I'd fix.
Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.
I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.
Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.
I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.
I treat auditions like I treated my first dates. It's an opportunity to get to know a stranger and to learn from each other.
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.
What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan.
When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime.
The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.
I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.
The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.
Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.
A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very dreamlike.
Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.
I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.
If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others
At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.
The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.
There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"
The first thing I ask when Im offered a part is, Whos the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.
[Lockyer]... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature. [Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.]
It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.
During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.
I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.
When I first came USA, I didn't feel this was my home. This was where I was studying, and then my home was now rejecting me.
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.
I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. American Family was the first thing I did in English.