#first

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#first #friends #heart #learn #live

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#california #children #down #first #generation

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#business #congressional #effort #first #items

You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement. ↗

— Sue Wicks

#believe #came #demand #entitlement #first

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool. ↗

— Esther Williams

#character #develop #discipline #first #girl

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid. ↗

— Esther Williams

#clark #clark gable #first #gable #me

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you. ↗

— Esther Williams

#could #everything #first #get #had

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. ↗

— Juan Williams

#airplane #am #attacks #bigoted #dressed

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

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I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

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