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“I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.”

Firsts Attention Stage First Time Seven Nine Just Being

Author:Gemma Ward

“I'm a mom first, a singer second.”

Firsts Mom Singers

Author:Gretchen Wilson

“I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Made Care Evil Alive Media Perception Music Is Interviews Trickery Necessary Evil

Author:Jack White

“But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.”

Should Firsts Government Asks President Approach Surrender Brutal Bin Laden Taliban Osama Bin Laden

Author:Barney Frank

“I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.”

Firsts Book Different Kids Married Happenings Things Happen Different Things

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.”

World Firsts Dangerous News Areas Organization Train Journalist Cnn Deploying

Author:Jim C. Walton

“When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.”

Firsts Character Use Would Be Wanted America Speak Language Felt Century Comic Ties Frank 20th Century Idiom

Author:Jim Woodring

“Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.”

Knows Firsts Mistake Heard Subjects Committed Combination Artificial Principal Legislators Reformers Fatal Mistakes

Author:Josiah Warren

“I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.”

Firsts Mean Princess

Author:Lalla Ward

“Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.”

Firsts Important Energy Water Rocks Produce Impact Wave Determine Pool Footprint Ripple

Author:Larry Wilcox

“When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.”

“My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.”

World Firsts Looks Said Wanted Hours Like You Dad My Dad Congratulations

Author:Lee Westwood

“If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.”

Ifs Firsts Chance Failing First Time Starting Over

Author:Lenny Wilkens

“My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.”

Mind Firsts Made Book Bigs Age School Life Is Spirit Universe Interesting High School Concepts Meetings My Favorite Make Sense New Age Introduction Wrinkles Favorite Book Wrinkle In Time

Author:Mae Whitman

“The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.”

Way Firsts Looks Written Musician First Time Notes Melody

Author:Margaret Whiting

“You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job.”

Firsts Would Be Jobs Contracts Opera Amazed Soap Soap Operas

Author:Michael Weatherly

“Becoming the first Canadian male to win a Major Championship, especially being the Masters, was a dream come true.”

Firsts Dream Winning Masters Becoming Majors Males Championship Dreams Come True

Author:Mike Weir

“I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.”

World Years Firsts Wells Persons Three Process Walks Five Accomplish Five Years Permit First Person Canyons Grand Canyon

Author:Nik Wallenda

“George Clooney sort of lost his 'George Clooney-ness' the first day I met him. He's not George Clooney in my eyes - he's George from Kentucky with an awesome, awesome heart.”

Firsts Heart Eye Lost Mets Kentucky

Author:Shailene Woodley

“First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.”

People Firsts Different Energy Natural Common Security Right Now Notion Focused Gas Dependence Vocabulary Different Peoples Natural Gas Geopolitical Different Meanings Energy Security

Author:Daniel Yergin

“I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.”

Firsts Done Roles New York Opposites Bus Cowboy Kim Stanley Bus Stops

Author:Dick York

“A nuclear Iran is a - a dramatic and - and devastating potential threat to the world and to America. And - and all our efforts should be focused on making that our first priority or keeping them from having that nuclear capacity our first priority.”

World Should Firsts America Effort Capacity Threat Focused Nuclear Priorities Dramatic Iran Nuclear Iran

Author:Mitt Romney

“I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped around a couple of regional theaters, and I was about to go back to Maine to work at a summer Shakespeare theater there. I didn't want to just jump around the country from gig to gig. I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community.”

Want Firsts Children Country Wanted Jobs Community Cities Groups College Couple Involved Scene Summer Theater Get Involved Gigs Kentucky Maine

Author:Timothy Simons

“Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.”

People Firsts States United Talking Class United States Folks Campaigns Bunch Inequality Senate Platforms Preaching Warfare Class Warfare

Author:Barack Obama

“What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar mark.”

Firsts Crosses Ears Mark Dollars Billions Vaccines Infection Meningitis

Author:Paul A. Offit

“If you're honest with yourself, that's the first step in maturing and becoming a better person. If you suppress your shortcomings and fears, they will follow you until the day you die. It was difficult, but I finally admitted to myself that I made mistakes.”

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.”

Writing Firsts Believe Wells Ideas Hard Games Lost Born Perfect Accepting Emotional Percent Essence Odds Equity Rewriting Writing Well

Author:William Zinsser

“Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.”

Way Firsts Wells I Can Helping Song Water Can Do Simple Areas Starting Rap Helpful Rap Song

Author:Jay-Z

“Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value.”

Firsts Art Values Please Taste Species Rejected Superficial Disdain Kitsch

Author:David Hume

“Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.”

Firsts Done Left Stuff Sides Cutting Huge Taxes Accidents Combination Bags Deficit Really Cool Tax Cuts Pentagon Deluded

Author:Thomas Frank

“When you develop your psychic vision after some meditation, you will be able to see the subtle physical of others, or perhaps yourself. At first you will see it as an aura; eventually you can see the whole subtle physical.”

Firsts Whole Able Vision Meditation Buddhism Subtle Psychics Auras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is necessary first in the practice of Kundalini yoga to determine what the dharma is. There is a dharma for you.”

Firsts Practice Buddhism Yoga Determine Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't understand that they have merely begun, and that they may be merely beginning even in the second or third draft.”

Should Writing Firsts May Students Thirds Disappointed

Author:Elizabeth Hardwick

“Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.”

Writing Firsts Facts Certain Stuff Satisfied Finite

Author:Rose Tremain

“Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.”

Writing Firsts Hard Joy Lying Grind

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.”

Ifs Should Firsts Jobs Class Middle Cost Labor Middle Class Why Not Volunteer Ceo

Author:Lou Dobbs

“To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan.”

Firsts Dream Vision Plans Accomplish Great Things Visualization

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.”

Want Firsts Fighting Understanding Enemy Motive Combat Exaggerating Fighting On

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might”

Want Life Mind Firsts Might Goal Results Cost Worthy Aspiration Aspire Prudent Weighing Make Up Your Mind Goals And Objectives

Book:Inspiration & motivation

Source: Inspiration & motivation

“If you love yourself first, you will find your Valentine much quicker!”

Ifs Firsts Love You Love Yourself Valentine Valentine's Day Love Yourself First

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.”

Firsts Christian Lasts Church First Time Christian Inspirational Being The Best Last Time Best Times

Author:Vance Havner

“Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.”

Firsts Eye Today Christian Church Blind Christian Inspirational Spots Repent Revival Evangelism Blind Spots

Author:Vance Havner

“I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.”

“Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.”

Firsts Difficult Breaths Solidarity Difficult Things Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath Deep Life

Book:Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know

Source: Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know

“LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder) I wrote to myself recently. Live in your joy today. Be authentic. Love yourself. First. Love others from your own abundance. Life Changes. Circumstances change. Sometimes you try to fit your old way of being into new circumstances rather than becoming new yourself. Embrace transformation as an opportunity. And keep on writing love letters to yourself.”

“A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."”

Firsts Like You Holiday Valentine's Day I Like You Happy Day

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.”

Mind Firsts Use Genius Exercise Appreciate Valuable Maxims Appreciate Life

Author:William Rounseville Alger

“In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.”

Firsts Week Judging Court Privilege Hearing Supreme Senators Supreme Court Participating Confirmation

Author:Al Franken

“Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.”

World Firsts Looks Art Happens Earth Suffering Steps Creativity Tasks Creator First Steps Kinder God Image

Author:Elizabeth O'Connor

“If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.”

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