"It was a boy's name first."

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"The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name."

David Hyde Pierce, American Actor

First, Name

"If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?"

Douglas Horton, American Clergyman

First, Heaven, Hell

"But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose."

Gunther Schuller, American Composer

First, Play

"The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday."

Sam Sheppard, American Scientist

First, Holiday

"When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub."

Gavin Rossdale, British Musician

First, Public, Thinking, Writing

"My first album is playful."

Mary J. Blige, American Musician

First,

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

First, Illusion

"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."

Charles W. Colson, American Lawyer

First, Public

"So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there."

Evan Parker, British Musician

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"And the things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first."

Steven Tyler, American Musician

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"I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal."

Work

"There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in."

Father

"Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare."

Shakespeare

"There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking."

God

"You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft."

Life

"I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important."

Eye

"The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up."

Reason

"The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address."

Forget

"I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account."

Golf

"Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished."

Nothing