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First Quotes
"I would kill the clone. That would be my first response."
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"It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings."
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"When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't."
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"I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names."
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
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"When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins."
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"Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things."
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"First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical."
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"Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later."
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"Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is not to try too hard."
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"If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?"
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"And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first."
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"My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got."
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"With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically."
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"I remember in the first part of the race I was sixth and I could have gone quicker, but I had to go slow. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done."
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"But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does."
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"If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment."
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"And the things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first."
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"The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center."
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"First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued."
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"When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio."
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"If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself."
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"To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."
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"I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record."
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"From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture."
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"When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded."
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"If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym."
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