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One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.
While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.
The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.
Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.
When people ask me how they can know Gods plan for their lives, I tell them the best first step is to know God.
First you draw what you see. Next, you draw what you know, and only then will you know what it is that you see.
Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.
I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more.
Yoga teaches us that we can have whatever we may want in life if we are willing to provide it for others first.
Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
Drama is more focused and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there, when you first read it.
Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.
I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.
Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.
How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.
The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?
The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
In 1994 I bought my first tour bus. I still own it and believe it or not it's still out on the road on my tour.
Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose.
When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that.
The first tattoo I got was when I was 17, and it's a cross on my bicep with 'Only God Can Judge Me' underneath.
You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.
You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.
If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U.S., we'd now be speaking Russian.
First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.
I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.
The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.
Bikram Yoga is the first time you start loving yourself because it is the first time you start seeing yourself.
My loyalty is first and foremost, to the people of Singapore. It has always been so, and will always remain so.
If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.
Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.
I think it would have been much better if Newton had contemplated how the apple got up there in the first place!
Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.
My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that.
My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.
I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.
I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set.