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“My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.”

“I think it's important that your first film be your worst film, that one's life trajectory should go up.”

Thinking Should Firsts Important Film Worst Trajectory

“All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.”

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.”

Firsts Helping Process Struggle Worst Cold Let Me Hot Drinking Warm Alcohol Weather Things To Do Worst Things Soup Drinking Alcohol Cold Heart Cold Weather Hot Soup

Author:Morgan Freeman

“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

“If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.”

People Ifs Life Firsts Looks Action Worst Judging Looking Good

Author:Derek R. Audette

“The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,500 scientists) has provided the world community with first class assessments of the soaring temperatures the world is facing, the devastating impacts of these rises and the ways in which we can try and avoid the worst effects of global warming. We now know climate change is real and the hand of humankind in this warming is becoming clearer and clearer.”

Knows World Way Trying Firsts Real Hands Community Class Groups Worst Effects Becoming Scientist Impact Climate Climate Change Global Warming Humankind Soar Temperature Assessment First Class

Author:Klaus Topfer

“Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice.”

Firsts Courage Worst Talent Rate Dull Cowardice Schemes

Book:The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

Source: The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

“Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.”

World Firsts Stills Past Dies Strong Fate Worst Victim Leaving Deeds Curse Hopeless Prime

Book:Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott

Source: Selected Poetry of Ebenezer Elliott

“The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you. They are therefore wise who make themselves an asset. We can be our own worst enemies or best friends. We can be a source of trouble or a cure for trouble. So if you feel empty, as many do, start by getting free from yourself as a first stop to vibrant living.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Persons Life Is Enemy Successful Wise Trouble Worst Source Empty Block Cures Assets Worst Enemy Successful Life

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.”

“I have really seen the best in people and I've absolutely seen the worst in people. And I'm happy to say that most of the time I have been seeing the best of people in the first congressional district and connecting with voters and seeing what's important to them hearing their stories and what they want to see happen.”

People Want Firsts Has Beens Important Stories Happens Seeing Worst Hearing Voters Connecting What's Important

Author:Rob Zerban

“It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.”

Firsts Kind Film Worst Shots Just Being

Author:Roger Ebert

“If anyone saw Fall Out Boy's first 400 shows, we were the worst band of all time.”

Ifs Firsts Shows Fall Boys Saws Worst Band All Time Fall Out Boy

Author:Pete Wentz

“Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training, or his worst; for it is there that he imbibes those principles of conduct which endure through manhood, and cease only with life.”

Firsts Humans Important Character Home School Human Beings Moral Principles Worst Training Endure Cease Manhood

Book:Character

Source: Character

“In order to get the worst possible first impression of Los Angeles one should arrive there by bus, preferably in summer and on a Saturday night.”

Should Firsts Night Order Worst Summer Impression Los Angeles Bus Saturday Saturday Night First Impression

Author:Christopher Isherwood

“The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world.”

World Firsts War Would Be Able Jobs President Term Saws Worst Information Cold Vulnerable Cold War Integrated Information Society

Author:William J. Clinton

“In practically every film you experience, you can see the director following the text. Illustrating the words first, making the pictures after, and, alas, so often not making pictures at all, but holding up the camera to do its mimetic worst.”

Firsts Film Worst Directors Cameras Following Alas Illustrating

Author:Peter Greenaway

“Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.”

Firsts Waiting Worst Mr Right

Book:The Piano Teacher

Source: The Piano Teacher

“The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction of my one year old daughter when she tasted her first crisp apple!”

World Years Firsts Seeing Worst Daughter Reactions Apples Culinary Crisps Worst Day

Author:Geoffrey Zakarian

“So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Firsts Kids Poetry Speak Causes My Own Records Team Worst What If

Author:Andrea Gibson

“The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.”

“It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.”

“The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.”

Firsts Worst

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“When you start out as an actor, you read a script thinking of it at its best. But that's not usually the case in general, and usually what you have to do is you have to read a script and think of it at its worst. You read it going, "OK, how bad could this be?" first and foremost. You cannot make a good film out of a bad script. You can make a bad film out of a good script, but you can't make a good film out of a bad script.”

Thinking Firsts Film Actors Cases Worst Scripts Good Films

Author:George Clooney

“Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.”

Ifs Writing Years Firsts States Helping Cases Novel Week Worst Months Obnoxious

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Women are being considered as candidates for vice-president of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is first lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.”

People Men Firsts Real States Running Jobs America President United United States Worst Willing He Man Concerned Vices Candidates Vice President First Lady Real Power Jobs In America

Author:Nora Ephron

“We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst of all, in the home - that even First Amendment absolutists sometimes daydream about how nice it would be to have government-as-nanny just outlaw all this effluent.”

“Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first.”

People Love Trying Mind Firsts Night Forget Enemy Focus Worst Anxiety Stress Slave Be Good Wander Awake Worst Enemy Good Love Awake At Night

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“The girls I've dated hate me a little because I can't remember anything about first dates or when we kissed. I have the worst memory in the world!”

World Firsts Littles I Can Remember Hate Girl Memories Worst Because I Can Hate Me First Date

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely clapped...in retrospect the poem was terrible. And for a while I thought this was something I would never do again. And then I realized that, in my 17-year-old head, that was the worst it could have been. And it wasn't that bad - [because] from there, it could only get better. And I think that failure kind of freed me up to explore and not be afraid of failing again.”

People Thinking Years Firsts Kind Has Beens Bigs Failing Worst Fronts Terrible First Time Crowds I Realized Get Better Could Have Been Retrospect Spoken Word

Author:Phil Kay

“the first night is the worst possible time to make a hard and fast criticism: the baby never looks its best on the day it is born.”

Firsts Looks Hard Night Born Worst Baby Criticism

Author:Margot Fonteyn

“What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst, A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst, Tho' oft it prooves, in happie Hour, The first swete Dropp of our long Showre.”

Firsts Long Hours Worst Kissing Thirst

Author:Charles Godfrey Leland

“The worst years of my life were the first two years I was doing standup. You're learning how to do, and you're going on stage in front of two drunks and people aren't laughing and you're broke. That's a really hard time in your life.”

People Years Firsts Two Hard Laughing Worst Stage Fronts Broke Hard Times Two Years

Author:Bill Maher

“Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere.”

“Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.”

Firsts Whole Remember Worst Building Weakness Critics Crafts Blueprints

Author:Tobsha Learner

“It seems to me that liberal and humane people, of whom there are many among us, would, if they were asked to rank the vices, put cruelty first. Intuitively they would choose cruelty as the worst thing we do.”

People Ifs Firsts Seems Worst Vices Cruelty Worst Things Humane

Book:Ordinary Vices

Source: Ordinary Vices

“The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was.”

Knows Years Firsts Worst Weak Isolated Sober Immune Immune System

Author:Corey Taylor

“The first and last frosts are the worst.”

Firsts Lasts Worst Frost Firsts And Lasts

Book:The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].

Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].

“By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.”

Firsts Long Company Fate Worst Position Drawing Employment Chiefs Hated Irony Telephones Secured Annoyance Electrician

Author:Nikola Tesla

“For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!”

Firsts Soul Ends Light Pain Turns Black Voice Minutes Worst Elements Brave Rage My Soul Thee Breasts Rave

Book:The Works of Robert Browning

Source: The Works of Robert Browning

“Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever and just threw it away and never showed anybody. Everyone needs to get that first bad screenplay out of your system before you start writing other stuff.”

Needs Writing Trying Firsts Stuff Comedy Worst College Screenplays Worst Movie

Author:Scot Armstrong

“Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity.”

Mind Firsts Fall Learning Worst Mankind Johnson Sanctity Courteous

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Long Government Strong Cases Worst Building Taxes Raises Obvious Canada Scenarios Unstable Worst Case Scenario

Author:Stephen Harper

“I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when i first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.”

Firsts Term Roles Worst Directors Hollywood Endure Discrimination Producers Mexican Racial Discrimination Worst Times

Author:Salma Hayek

“My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all the magic was gone from it. It just turned into a place I hated and I've never been there since.”

Firsts Jobs Gone Magic Worst Hated Parks Amusement Virginia Amusement Parks

Author:Danny McBride

“Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.”

Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Letters and personal writings

“I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.”

Firsts Jobs Night Next Four Worst Quitting Restaurants Thieves Next Day I Quit Dens Janitor

Author:Wendell Pierce

“The worst thing that can happen to an investor is to make money on his first trade; he thinks investing is easy”

Thinking Firsts Happens Easy Worst Trade Investing Making Money Investors Worst Things

Author:Mark Skousen

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