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The estate tax has been a disaster. First of all it's double taxation, some people could even say it's triple taxation.
The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.
Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.
So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it’s not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.
Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me.
Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.
Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.
To take another breath, we must first exhale. When we have breathed out and emptied our lungs, we can breathe in again.
For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.
There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.
Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
From when I was really young one of the first things I did was to perform and do shows. It was like a natural instinct.
Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.
When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.
There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.
In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.
Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.
The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.
Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.
Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.
Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.
I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.
Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
At first, she could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him?
I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.
In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.
In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.
A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.
And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.
Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.
Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
Those who enter into marriage, must be fully prepared to establish their marriage, as the first priority in their lives.
I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.
When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.
In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week.
Accuracy first,” I used to tell the writers. “We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately!
You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.
Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.
The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.
[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.
You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.
I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first love.