#first

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

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Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#kill #matters #now #swinging

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good. ↗

— Pythagoras

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It's about listening first, then selling. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#first #listening #selling #then

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language. ↗

— Christopher Walken

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I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith. ↗

— Nick Rahall

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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place. ↗

— Sam Raimi

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I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

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