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“What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.”

Ifs Firsts Two Three

Author:Matthew Vaughn

“I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.”

Firsts Persons Together Groups Albums First Person Wayne Novas

Author:Miroslav Vitous

“I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.”

Thinking World Firsts I Can Book Stories Dark Terrible Dull Picture Books

Author:Daniel Handler

“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”

Firsts Persons War Peace Rocks Civilization First Time Angry Casts Anti War Antiwar Moderation Angry Person

Author:Sigmund Freud

“First we must see that we cannot will ourselves to be open because openness is our very nature. Any tiny residue of willing, of wanting to be open takes us away from what we are. Willing never goes beyond willing. So the only way to be free from this circle is to glimpse the truth that openness is the egoless state, that it is here and now”

Way Firsts States Willing Tiny Circles Openness Glimpse Here And Now

Book:I Am

Source: I Am

“If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Minutes Twenties Tables Gambling Sucker

Author:David Levien

“First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.”

Firsts Fall Half Finished Snow Bridges Snow Falling First Snow

Author:Matsuo Basho

“If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Firsts Spirit Jesus Can Do Born Teach Teacher Holy Standards Statements Holy Spirit Savior Sermons Born Again Sermon On The Mount

Book:Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

Source: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.”

Firsts Christ Community Common Biblical Common Life

Book:True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

Source: True Community: The Biblical Practice of Koinonia

“I always make it a rule to let the other fellow fire first. If a man wants to fight, I argue the question with him and try to show him how foolish it would be. If he can't be dissuaded, why then the fun begins but I always let him have first crack. Then when I fire, you see, I have the verdict of self-defence on my side. I know that he is pretty certain in his hurry, to miss. I never do.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Trying Firsts Self Shows Would Be Certain Fighting Fun Sides Fire Missing Fellows Arguing Foolish Cracks Defence Verdict Self Defence

Author:Ben Thompson

“My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.”

Knows Firsts Littles Made Important Kids Song Band Singing Little Kid Favorite Bands

Author:Chris Cornell

“My father was one of the greatest professional bowlers of all time. Seriously. Billy Hardwick: PBA Hall of Fame, Player of the Year in '63 and '69, and the first winner of the triple crown of bowling, among other things.”

Years Firsts Father Player Fame All Time Winner Halls Crowns Hall Of Fame Bowling Bowlers

Author:Chris Hardwick

“I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.”

Thinking Firsts Steps Recovery First Steps Addict Admitting

Author:J. J. Abrams

“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”

Inspirational Firsts Humans Civilization Stones Anger Insult Founders Insulting Psychoanalysis Comeback

Author:Sigmund Freud

“To find yourself, you must first lose yourself”

Firsts Loses Finding Yourself Losing Yourself

Author:Jared Leto

“The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law.”

Firsts Justice Civilization

Author:Sigmund Freud

“If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long!”

Ifs Firsts Long Happens Morning Knowing Worst Satisfaction Worst Things Frogs

Book:Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“I've slogged like crazy to get where I am. And those who think it's just my body that got me where I am, they should take a look at the others who have rushed in after me. They haven't gone beyond their first feverish film.”

Thinking Should Firsts Looks Body Film Gone Crazy Havens

Author:Mallika Sherawat

“Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.”

Giving Feels Firsts Heart I Can Soul Self Romance Joy Passion Energy Given Enjoy Secret Audience My Heart Findings Singing Give Me My Soul First Love My Passion Inner Self Great Joy

Author:Kailash Kher

“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”

Firsts Source Birth Anxiety Prototype

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin and they are all Canadians.”

“I read a review on the Herald, it says it takes 40 minutes to get to the first sex session apparently and the whole movie only contains 11 minutes of forbidden fruit.”

Firsts Whole Sex Minutes Fruit Reviews Forbidden Session Forbidden Fruit

Author:John Key

“When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.”

Firsts Said Buddhism Practicals Exposed 1960s Pragmatic

Author:Joan Halifax

“When the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to her message, though it may hate it at first.”

World Firsts May Made Different Hate Church Messages

Author:Martyn

“I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary. People like Lori Piestewa and First Sergeant Dowdy who picked up fellow soldiers in harm's way. Or people like Patrick Miller and Sergeant Donald Walters who actually fought until the very end. The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate tales.”

People Way Needs Firsts Stills Real Ends Facts Lying Lines Hero Capable Ideals Fellows Bottom Soldier Harm Tales Confused Legends Bottom Line Legendary Sergeants Fellow Soldiers

Author:Jessica Lynch

“Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.”

World Firsts War War Of The Worlds World War I First World War

Author:Pat Barker

“Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.”

Firsts Age Goal Weapons Planes Fulfillment Adjustment

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.”

Firsts Beauty Skins Puritan Philistines Skin Deep Beauty Is Skin Deep Beauty Is Only Skin Deep Beauty Skin Deep

Book:A Mania for Magnificence

Source: A Mania for Magnificence

“Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.”

Firsts Country Order Hell Products Sells Merit

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.”

Firsts Remember Father Memories Childhood Goes On Stores Buying Fishing Tents Camping Pups

Author:David Suzuki

“You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.”

Firsts Would Be Asks Principles Economy Conditions Findings Priorities Ecology

Author:David Suzuki

“I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.”

Years Firsts Two Character Drawing Two Years Two Year Olds

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.”

People Should Firsts Body Natural Saws Groups First Time

Author:Leymah Gbowee

“If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.”

Ifs World Firsts Two God Known Gone Conclusion Ruins Denial Premises

Author:Al-Ghazali

“Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.”

Feels Should Firsts Sometimes Watches Morning Husband Window Wave Awakening Lakes My Husband

Book:Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters

Source: Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters

“We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.”

Needs Firsts Belief Chance Sensible Agnosticism Arriving

Author:D. Elton Trueblood

“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.”

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“How do you get into magazines? How can you get on TV or in your local newspaper? What can you do so others will take notice of your art? When I was first trying to get noticed, all of these questions went through my mind. After a lot of trial of error and a lot of reading, I began to understand the world of public relations.”

World Trying Mind Firsts Art Reading Tvs Relation Errors Newspapers Trials Locals Magazines Public Relations

Author:Mark Edward

“First off there is no question that LaDainian is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. His contributions off the field to the community of San Diego are as important as what he did on the field. What he did on the field was monumental.”

Firsts Important Community Fields Contribution Halls Ballots San Diego

Author:Dan Fouts

“Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.”

Years Firsts Kind Film Used Fiction Watches Saws Four Seeing Effects Supposed To Be My Sister Four Years Pulp

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!”

Ifs Firsts Believe Said Would Be Animal Dog Cry Majors Noble London Britain Believe In Me Founders Towers Pope Vessel Great Britain Submarines Westminster

Author:Pierre Daninos

“I believe that a country's first duty is to set its own house in order; and having set its own house in order, it can contribute better to the community of the world. Instead of being a weak link, it should be a strong link.”

World Should Firsts Believe Country Order House Strong I Believe Community Duty Weak Links Cooperation

Author:George Cadle Price

“I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.”

Knows Firsts Stills Book Happens Difficult Behinds Novel Knowing Industry Scene Office First Time Leap Elites Publishing Occasional Behind The Scenes Insiders Working Behind The Scenes

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.”

Way Firsts Two Character Stories Past Novel Research My Way

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.”

Firsts Two States School Jobs Three Sports Construction Yards Free Time Yard Work

Author:Breaux Greer

“I wrote my first play when I was eight.”

Firsts Play Eight

Author:Pam Gems

“I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.”

Firsts Self Taught Guitar October Self Taught

Author:Ernie Isley

“My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.”

Firsts Night Memories Brother Gigs Philadelphia Older Brother Fond Memories

Author:Ernie Isley

“I prefer to work with first-time directors.”

Firsts Directors First Time

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn't grow up when he was - I was born in '78 - the reruns of Belushi in 'Animal House,' and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house.”

Firsts Stills Wanted House Fun Grows Born Animal Cities Growing Up Knowing Growing Stage Kings Reruns Second City

Author:Jake M. Johnson

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