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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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"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 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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"When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down."
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"Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was."
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"I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky."
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"To finish first you must first finish."
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"After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked."
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"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
Art

"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
Courage

"Use your health even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself."
Health

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
First

"We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies."
Philosophy

"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."
God

"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."
End

"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
Fitness

"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
Succeed

"If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters."
People
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