#first

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well? ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

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I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

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Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building. ↗

— Mercer Reynolds

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It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair. ↗

— Nile Rodgers

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I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy. ↗

— Bryan Robson

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Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out. ↗

— Arthur Rock

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You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality. ↗

— Narciso Rodriguez

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On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game. ↗

— Richard Roeper

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You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote. ↗

— James E. Rogers

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It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical. ↗

— Darius Rucker

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