#first

I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.' ↗

— Li Na

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Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance. ↗

— Li Na

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The first time I showed the tattoo, it was big news in the newspaper: 'She has a tattoo with a snake.' It's not a snake. ↗

— Li Na

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All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio. ↗

— Joe Murray

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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't. ↗

— Patrick Murray

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I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous. ↗

— Joseph Murray

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Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean. ↗

— Joseph Murray

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The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

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It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them. ↗

— Robert Musil

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