#first

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. ↗

— Willie Nelson

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The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite. ↗

— Willie Nelson

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I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life. ↗

— Lesley Nicol

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The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

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Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

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