#first time

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions. ↗

— David Attenborough

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I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

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I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated. ↗

— Jean Alesi

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I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old. ↗

— Alan Alda

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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president. ↗

— James Baker

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The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

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Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West. ↗

— Dennis Banks

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The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine. ↗

— Angela Bassett

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I am happiest when I am with my wife, Susi, and our two boys exploring and loving something for the first time. ↗

— Mario Batali

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