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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.
The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.
My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland USA, which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.
Lions mane may be our first smart mushroom. It is a safe, edible fungus that appears to confer cognitive benefits on our aging population.
My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.
You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed.
A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.
The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?
That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.
There are two kinds of people in the world: Submissive and rebellious. The problem of the world is that majority is in the first category!
When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.
As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect.
The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.
I'm going to teach you about men. Distances are like men. Never grab the first one you see; it's never the best one, more will come along.
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.
[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.
As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.
It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.
Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.
My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.
It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.
I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.
For the first time in my life, I was in a shoot-out. A real, honest-to-goodness shoot-out with a bad guy. And, apparently, we both sucked.
When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.
Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors.
We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.
I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more unique and defensible.
Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.
Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.
Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X.
Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.
When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let some of it float up just a little.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.
It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.
Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.