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"When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist."
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"Hang 'em first, try 'em later."
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"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"
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"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."
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"You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."
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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
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"After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground."
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"We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi."
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"He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor."
Literature
"When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist."
First
"There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place."
Time
"What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?"
Choice
"I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read."
Mother
"Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man."
Man
"They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever."
Thought
"I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned."
Defence
"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
Democracy
"If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out."
People
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