#first

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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That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

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As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. ↗

— Lucille Ball

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My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood. ↗

— Kurtis Blow

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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. ↗

— Edward de Bono

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'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

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When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

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My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#born #certain #come #dies #film

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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