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With the first episode [of John Mulaney Show] I tell a story that happened to me accidentally chasing a woman down the subway.
One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.
My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.
Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.
I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
In order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?
I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be.
Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.
This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.
Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.
The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.
I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?
A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal; they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first.
It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.
... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.
Yes, you're very very old But try to think of it as not being cursed After all, in a hostage situation You'd be released first!
The first one is always the hardest," he said. "The first?" "The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.
O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first?
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!
My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic.
Many times we say Jesus is first in our life, and i get that, but Jesus should not be first, He should be center of everything.
Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.
I'm disappointed in television. I'm disappointed first of all in the audience that will not let stories be told in longer form.
It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.
The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.
I was so obsessed with 2Pac. He was one of the first rappers I heard. "Dear Mama" was one of the first tracks I ever memorized.
Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?
Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.
For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.
When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.
I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.
You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.
Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.
I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.
I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.
Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.
When I was a kid at first I wanted to own a candy shop. I guess every kid wants to - we just want to have access - free access.
I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.
When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.
It's funny: when I first started getting vocal about how much I liked 'Doctor Who,' I didn't realize how deep the fan base was.
I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.