#first

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#cancer #could #crying #death #decided

Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard. ↗

— Ed Markey

#fire #first #historic #last #last year

Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

#any #ask #beware #date #first

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#first #his #looks #regards #spring

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#care #first #first thing #how #last

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis. ↗

— Theresa May

#arrive #basis #briefing #daily #daily basis

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#attention span #bad #bad habit #first #first of all

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out! ↗

— Robert McCloskey

#around #bag #because #book #everything

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom. ↗

— Reese Hoffa

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