#first thing

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book. ↗

— Andy Rooney

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We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism. ↗

— Joe Slovo

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The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

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It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

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It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters. ↗

— Bryce Dallas Howard

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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. ↗

— Noah Webster

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Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases. ↗

— Henry Winkler

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