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First Quotes
"The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them."
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"I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did."
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"Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia."
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"In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair."
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"It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black."
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"We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions."
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"I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice."
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"Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'"
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"First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III."
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"The reason I formed my own band in the first place is so that I could step up as the singer."
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"My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums."
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"Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground."
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"I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record."
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"When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins."
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"But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own."
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"We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it."
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"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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"When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star."
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"You have to be very brave in that first writing session."
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"I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie."
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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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"In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely."
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"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.'"
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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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"It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online."
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"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."
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"To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."
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"First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good."
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"My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another."
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"When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded."
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"Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons."
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"First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes."
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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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"The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper."
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"The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14."
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