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A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

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'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important. ↗

— Janis Ian

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That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling. ↗

— Janis Ian

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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

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That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

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My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it. ↗

— Frank Iero

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To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

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I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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