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"First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis."
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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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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"The First Amendment is not without limits."
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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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"Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely."
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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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"Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost."
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"I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing."
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"I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must."
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"There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility."
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"First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis."
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"I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was."
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"Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules."
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"Love is so much better when you're not married."
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"You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there."
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"When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point."
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"It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't."
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"An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house."
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