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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. - Maya Angelou
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.Maya Angelou
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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.Jackie Kennedy
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I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894... A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.Marie Curie
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.Joan of Arc
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Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.Gerard Way
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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.Joe DiMaggio
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.Sigmund Freud
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I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.Oscar Isaac
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The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.Alfred Nobel
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People who look for the first time through a microscope say, 'Now I see this, and then I see that,' and even a skilled observer can be fooled. On these observations I have spent more time than many will believe, but I have done them with joy, and I have taken no notice of those who have said, 'Why take so much trouble,' and, 'What good is it?'Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.Rose Kennedy
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Discovering traces of life on Mars would be of tremendous scientific significance: The first time that any signs of extraterrestrial life had ever been detected. Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we're not entirely alone in this vast, cold cosmos.Nick Bostrom
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After I failed to win the Most Valuable Player Award in 1960, I made up my mind I'd win the batting title in 1961 for the first time.Roberto Clemente
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I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.Kamala Harris
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.Robert Cormier
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If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her first heart attack, the doctor said, 'Try to make her laugh.' And that was the first time I tried to make anyone laugh.Gene Wilder
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If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.Sushant Singh Rajput
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And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.Joel Coen
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The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand that was inconsistent of cutting across the grain.Tim Scott
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I think writing the first album, it just felt so spontaneous. I was 17 years old learning how to write songs for the first time and just pouring my heart out. I had so much to say.Olivia Rodrigo
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When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.Betty Smith
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.T. S. Eliot
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For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.Michelle Obama
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The first time I do something, I'll probably be good at it.King Von
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Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do. - Kendrick Lamar
Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.Kendrick Lamar
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.Viktor E. Frankl
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.Viktor E. Frankl
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I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity. - Keith Miller
I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.Keith Miller
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The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.Emil Ludwig
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I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.Groucho Marx
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The 1920s was the beginning of the media age. For the first time people were taking influences from the radio, Vogue and Hollywood.Dawn O'Porter
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. - Margaret Mead
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.Margaret Mead
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At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acquire the knowledge of the West and to fathom the mysteries of nature.Sun Yat-sen
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I discovered freedom for the first time in England.Hirohito
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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. - Margaret Mead
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.Margaret Mead
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I like going to New York because I don't get recognised there - although, the first time I was there, I'd only been in the city an hour when the tallest guy came up to me on Fifth Avenue and said my name, gave me a high-five, and then just walked off.Theo Walcott
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One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.Bebe Neuwirth
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Use an accountant the first time you file your taxes after becoming a freelancer. It will be worth it.Jean Chatzky
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The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.Louis Armstrong
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When I visited Israel for the first time, in 2014, on a trip sponsored by the National Religious Broadcasters, I went to the Museum of The Bible with our group. There, we saw the most ancient and original versions of both the Hebrew and Christian bibles.Katie Pavlich
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I never heard anything so brilliant in my life as I did that first time I heard Ornette. He played like some revolutionary angel. Soon, we were rehearsing in his place, music scattered everywhere, and he was telling me to play outside the chord changes, which was exactly what I had been wanting to do. Now I had permission.Charlie Haden
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This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.James Baker
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Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.Bob Parsons
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When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.Ernest Hemingway
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In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.Paul Robeson
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The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.Vitalik Buterin
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.Rabindranath Tagore
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A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.Herb Caen
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I wrote 'Love Foolish,' and when I heard the music for the first time, it felt like this was a song that Twice hadn't done before. I thought the song and music had a very mature tone, so I wrote the lyrics to match. I was inspired by the music directly.Momo Hirai
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Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.Carl Sagan
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You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time.Jose Mourinho
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.Hannah Arendt
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Finding ballet gave me passion for the first time in my life. I was always very shy and just wanted to fit in; I never daydreamed about what I wanted to be when I grew up. But dancing gave me a connection to my personality that made me grow.Misty Copeland
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When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.Janis Joplin
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. - Fred Allen
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.Fred Allen
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In 1884, for the first time since the Civil War, voters had elected a Democrat to the White House. Grover Cleveland promised to use the government to protect ordinary Americans, and to stop congressmen from catering to wealthy industrialists.Heather Cox Richardson
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The first time I saw 'Minecraft,' people wanted to have 8-bit style video game music. But I wanted to go around that and make something organic and partly electronic, partly acoustic, and see if that would be interesting.C418
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The first time I arrived in Hollywood for the Grammy Awards, I thought I'd bump into people who mattered, such as Ry Cooder or Randy Newman. I was disappointed to see the people I'd always thought of as pop stars. They would charge around the stage rather than enjoy the music.Chris Rea
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