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“I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.”

Ifs Years Firsts Looks Stories Today Enjoy Sides Records Heard Huge Elements Impact West Seven Eight West Side West Side Story

Author:Steve Vai

“It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.”

People Way Years Firsts Mistake Valuable Grades

Author:Tom Verlaine

“In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.”

Years Firsts Jobs Lasts Father New York Engineers Reserves Senior Maintenance Great Job Federal Reserve Working Life

Author:Tony Visconti

“The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.”

“My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.”

Years Mind Firsts Book Dream Guy Three Ten Buried Three Years Killers Curves This Guy Serials Serial Killer Sewers

Author:Tim Cahill

“As the Nazi regime developed over the years, the whole structure of decision-making was changed. At first there were laws. Then there were decrees implementing laws. Then a law was made saying, ‘There shall be no laws.’ Then there were orders and directives that were written down, but still published in ministerial gazettes. Then there was government by announcement; orders appeared in newspapers. Then there were the quiet orders, the orders that were not published, that were within the bureaucracy, that were oral. And finally, there were no orders at all. Everybody knew what he had to do.”

Years Firsts Made Stills Whole Government Law Order Decision Written Changed Quiet Structure Newspapers Decision Making Regimes Nazi Bureaucracy Decree Announcements Implementing

Author:Raul Hilberg

“Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8 months of last year was 42.3 per cent above the corresponding period the year previous, and our total trade with Asia was up 13.5 per cent. For the first time since 1919, the United States in the first 8 months of 1956 accounted for less than 60 percent of our total trade.”

Years Firsts Made States Lasts United United States Progress Months Periods Percent First Time Europe Areas Trade Cents Last Year Asia Corresponding Foreign Trade

Author:Ramon Magsaysay

“The first game of the year is always an in-season adjustment game.”

Years Firsts Games Seasons Adjustment

Author:Tony Romo

“Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!”

Years Firsts Children Dark Dear Clock Thirty Bombs Tonight Halls Ducks Midnight December Another Year Time Bomb

Author:Ogden Nash

“We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful... The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one”

“I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.”

Writing Years Firsts Play School Jobs Class College

Author:Zoe Kazan

“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 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

“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

“It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.”

Years Firsts Company Four Six Democratic Senate Slam Barbara

Author:Ellen Malcolm

“We've suffered a "Ponzification" of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it's the first time.”

Years Firsts Economy First Time Built Bubbles

Author:Mitchell Zuckoff

“For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.”

Trying Years Firsts Industry Fats Pharmaceutical Food Industry Pharmaceutical Industry

Author:Pierre Dukan

“I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.”

Years Firsts Play Wanted Jobs Games Winning Tennis

Author:Gabriela Sabatini

“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.”

Years Firsts Humans Stills Two Facts Dies Born Air Creatures Eternal England Twenties Britain Ireland Seventies Foreigners Being Irish Ireland And The Irish

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“In my 39 years on this earth, the Holy city of Makka had been the first time I had ever stood before the Creator of all and felt like a complete human being”

Years Firsts Humans Wisdom Earth Felt Human Beings Cities Holy First Time Creator Islamic

Author:Malcolm X

“Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in college. The black creek, the woods, the empty fields, the old cemetery-anywhere away from people, away from their critical eyes. I would seek out these places, choosing routes and times that would mean I could avoid as many people as possible.”

People Years Firsts Mean Eye Black Fields College Depression Lonely Empty Illness Woods Critical Mental Illness Routes Cemetery Creeks Semester Lonely Places

Author:Samantha Abeel

“There are going to be tears in Heaven, because God is going to have to wipe them away. No doubt many of us will cry when we first arrive there and realize just how much our many mistakes have cost and lost. But God will wipe away all these tears, and comfort and encourage us and inspire us for the future, so we can forget the past. There will be tears, but thank God He will wipe them away with His joy. Then there will be no more tears and no more years, only a happy eternity!”

Years Firsts Past Joy Lost Heaven Realizing Forget Mistake Doubt Cry Tears Inspire Comfort Cost Eternity Gods Will No Doubt Heavenly Thank God Wipe Forget The Past

Author:David Berg

“Soils could also be giving up their carbon stores: evidence emerged in 2005 that a vast expanse of western Siberia was undergoing an unprecedented thaw. The region, the largest frozen peat bog in the world, had begun to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago. Scientists believe the bog could begin to release billions of tonnes of methane locked up in the soils, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The World Meteorological Organisation recently reported the largest annual rise of methane levels in the atmosphere for a decade.”

“The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.”

Years Firsts Live Life

Author:Vy Higginsen

“I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.”

Years Firsts Two Done Government Wanted Five Republican First Time Decided Majority Forty Transparent Things Done Good Years Government Shutdown Bad Years

Author:William J. Clinton

“The first years of man must make provision for the last.”

Men Years Firsts Lasts Prudence Provision

Book:Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia

Source: Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia

“Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.”

Needs Years Firsts Has Beens Today Winning Process President Years Ago Vote Twenties Iraq Saddam Hussein Twenty One Popular Vote Electoral Process

Author:Jay Leno

“Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him”

Men Years Firsts Doe Age Pleasure Grief Cases Depends Sensations First Love Fourteen

Author:Charles Kingsley

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.”

“We're comfortable financially, so it wasn't a financial issue that I voted Conservative. Basically, it was for the same reason we voted for Diefenbaker. First it was Mackenzie King, then St. Laurent -- Christ, the Liberals were in something like 20 years in a row (22 actually) --and we simply needed a change. It was getting like a dictatorship. Whether elected or not, that's not good for the country. I didn't go to war for a dictatorship.”

Years Firsts War Country Reason Christ Issues Kings Needed Comfortable Financial Conservative Dictatorship

Author:Don Drysdale

“I am younger each year at the first snow.”

Years Firsts Snow First Snow

Book:Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

“We should listen first and foremost to our own experience We should stop looking for saviors.Society has not existed for thousands of years because it had a succession of saviors. It's existed because it has institutions and processes through which people can realize their own goals.”

People Should Years Firsts Process Goal Realizing Institutions Savior Succession

Author:Thomas Sowell

“I had the luck at 18 to become assistant to Christian Dior, and to succeed him at 21 and to meet with success from my first collection in 1958. That will be 44 years in a few days. Above all it was Christian Dior who was my master and who was the first to reveal the secrets and mysteries of haute couture.”

Years Firsts Christian Secret Christianity Mystery Masters Succeed Luck Collections Assistants Couture Dior Haute Couture

Author:Christian Dior

“I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.”

Years Firsts Self Character Bigs Views Clear Inner Self Disappearance Clear View Blinkers

Author:Paul Klee

“My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.”

Writing Years Firsts Made Book Three Five Lucky Husband Five Years Three Years Housewife

Author:Judith Perelman Rossner

“The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.”

Years Firsts Hard Given Challenges Decision Growing Fronts Promise Shapes Green Edges Horizon Discovering Hard Things

Author:Howard Thurman

“Not scoring one for the whole calendar year last year was a bit disappointing but I didn't really feel any pressure to get my first one as skipper,.”

Feels Years Firsts Whole Lasts Bits Pressure Last Year Disappointing Calendars Skipper

Author:Ricky Ponting

“But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.”

People Thinking Years Firsts School Three Cases Teacher Stupid Lows Expectations Tests Three Years You Re Stupid Low Expectations I Was Stupid

Author:Robert Sternberg

“When it comes to fully understanding how to strategically move all the pieces on the marketing and distribution chess board on a worldwide basis, Jeff Blake is always thinking two moves ahead and that gives Sony a true competitive edge. He is the studio's secret weapon and while he would be the first to credit his fantastic sales and marketing team, there are few executives here that deserve more credit for our successes during the past several years than Jeff.”

“My brother was a year younger than I am and he was never in the home with me hardly at all, ... My mom had to take him to every school there possibly was to get him some education. He ended up first in Columbus, Ohio, for grade school, then went to a high school for the deaf and Galludet in Washington.”

Years Firsts Home School Brother Mom High School My Mom My Brother Grades Deaf Ohio Columbus Grades In School Columbus Ohio

Author:Les Miles

“I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I've been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews.”

People Years Firsts Believe I Can Kids Lasts Past Crazy First Time Red Cameras Workers Aids Noses Last Time Crew Famine Ethiopia

Author:Lenny Henry

“The first year of marriage is like wet cement”

Years Firsts Wet Cement Years Of Marriage First Year Marriage

Author:Robert Wolgemuth

“Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.”

Should Years Firsts Looks Said Years Ago Originals Ugly Originality

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart pulsing like ours. He was poured from the same first fountain. And whether he at last goes to our stingy Heaven or not, he has terrestrial immortality. His life, not long, not short, knows no beginning , no ending. To him life unstinted, unplanned, is above the accidents of time, and his years, markless and boundless, equal eternity.”

Knows Years Firsts Heart Long Made Lasts Turns Heaven Water Sun Sky Adventure Wind Bears Drink Equal Eternity Blue Breathe Accidents Dust Immortality Fountain Dwelling Boundless Blue Sky Stingy

Author:John Muir

“It doesn't matter to me. I'm just worried. It's the first time I've see Teach like that. He said he had two regrets...Once, 20 years ago. And once when you hurt your wrist. He said he didn't ever want to regret again. I wonder what that means.”

Want Years Firsts Mean Said Two Matter Hurt Wonder Teach Regret Drama First Time Years Ago Worried Wrists

Author:Kim Su-mi

“Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.”

“I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.”

Thinking Writing Years Mind Firsts Children Book Quality Written Pages Blank

Author:Walt Disney

“I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I thought to myself how lucky I was that my parents' and grandparents' generation had the vision and the determination to save it for us. Now it is our turn to make our own gift outright to those who will come after us, 15 years, 40 years, 100 years from now. I want to be as faithful to my grandchildren's generation as Old Faithful has been to ours. What better way can we add a new dimension to our third century of freedom?”

“In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million.”

Years Firsts School Education Millions Students Program

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government, with all its massive resources, get directly involved in aiding American education?' The answer this law gave was a loud 'Yes!' - and thus we paved the way for a new era of support for education in America. This law, in fact, helped make possible more than 50 new education laws passed in my administration.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

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