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First is the man ...and then the music. If the man is not intact, the music will not happen.
Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.
We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.
The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity.
It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.
I trust my mom with anything. If I have a problem, my mom is always the first person I go to.
Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.
One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.
Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.
For a photographer, the first 70 years are a bit difficult, but after that things get better.
[I'll be the first one of the Smith to die.] I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.
Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.
[T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.
The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver.
What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
Isn't Googling someone the first thing everyone does?! They meet someone new and Google them!
Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.
You are an Englishman, and have subsequently drawn the greatest prize in the lottery of life.
A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.
But when it comes to being loved, she's first/That's how I know The first cut is the deepest.
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.
My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.
Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.
This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable.
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.
I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.
I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.
Golf is fluid. It's always changing. It's always evolving. First of all, you never master it.
It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.
When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.
If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!
In fact, the first time I ever got naked on TV was the biggest confidence booster of my life.
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
I want to be known for good work first. A good story and good delivery is just that - period.
Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.