#first

And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come. ↗

— William Bolcom

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I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used. ↗

— Ato Boldon

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The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them. ↗

— Ato Boldon

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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

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I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking. ↗

— Todd English

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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders. ↗

— Brian Eno

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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. ↗

— Epictetus

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. ↗

— Epictetus

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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. ↗

— Brian Eno

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Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action. ↗

— Julian Bond

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