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The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.
When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.
I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.
Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!
Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.
Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart.
I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself.
I hadn't liked him at first. He did sort of grow on you after a while. Like the cosmopolitans. Or maybe because of the cosmopolitans.
The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.
Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.
The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.
The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.
If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?
When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn’t understand what these instruments were meant to be doing
When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.
My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.
Now there are times when I have to make big decisions as I'm now running a company and that it's OK to go with being respected first.
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.
The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.
'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.
A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!
We can't really understand just how wonderful Heaven will be unless we first know how wonderful each of us will be when we get there.
Diplomacy should always be our first option. Most politicians only talk, not fight. I’ve fought; talking is far better than fighting.
The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.
I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.
I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
I mean, I'm a fan of Eminem. I'm a fan first and foremost. Maybe before I wouldn't have challenged him, but I'm contemplating it now.
When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
One must first become a magician before one he can become a Kabbalist. As a Kabbalist, one works differently and more advantageously.
The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market.
We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.
Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
When I first moved to L.A., I thought about turning gay. Then I realized none of the guys I was interested in was good enough for me.
As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.
I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.
Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater?
The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified.
I was so overwhelmed by India when I first came - it still inspires me because I still go for the culture, I still go for the colors.
The first thing I do every morning is go online to check the surf. If the waves are good, I'll go surf. The beach is 10 minutes away.
When I see Facebook, I feel like Howlin' Wolf must have felt when he first heard Elvis. 'They finally taught a white boy to do this.'
I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. "Save the drama for your mama " I told her just like an eleven-year-old.
It's false advertising to call Mrs. Obama the First Lady. First Woman, maybe, but certainly not a lady. Ann Romney is an actual lady.
When I got Trophy Wife, the first fear is, This could go away; the second is, Its here and I love it; I hope it gets a second season.
I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.
Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.
When I first walked through the doors of Rex Club, I realized that I didn't have to travel to raves outside the city to enjoy techno.
The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.
Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting.