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First Quotes
"Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone."
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"And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez."
31
"First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds."
27
"I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting."
26
"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first."
25
"But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place."
24
"I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry."
24
"The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity."
22
"I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet."
22
"After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela."
20
"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two."
20
"The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine."
19
"First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio."
16
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."
15
"Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not."
14
"Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course."
14
"My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana."
14
"The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines."
13
"My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!"
13
"In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'"
12
"First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that."
12
"It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up."
12
"But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past."
12
"You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more."
12
"I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan."
12
"In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair."
11
"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts."
11
"If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date."
11
"Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself."
11
"I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto."
10
"Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001."
10
"The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there."
10
"No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues."
10
"I had not seen that until - and when it first came out I was told. I had not seen or been aware of all of that physical evidence. And when I saw it, I was horrified. It was so astounding to me to see that there was that much evidence."
10
"We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins."
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