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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.
There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.
Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.
The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.
No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.
The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.
If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
There are problems with the single already. I don't want to put out the first single, Hit the Freeway.
I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.
Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.
Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.
The first thing I learned is when times are tough, you need to hedge your bets - you need to diversify.
Republican Michigan Congressman Justin Amash said, no president is allowed to burn the first amendment.
I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit.
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.
A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.
I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.
The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
My drive is still cool, it's not like how when I first began. I don't think anyone's drive is the same.
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
To show the potentialities of a brighter future we must first resuscitate the visions of a better past.
You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.
I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing.
I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.
Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.
Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.
Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.
The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
It's always hard for the first movie because you have to spend so much time introducing the characters.
When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.
We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.