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Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

#apt #art #because #does #expects

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ↗

— Robert Hall

#conscience #first #last #matters #prudence

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#concept #first #guy #i #out

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#first #i #novel #read #wanted

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard. ↗

— Gregory Harrison

#done #else #everybody #everybody else #feel

When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#ago #austria #come #continent #cultures

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models. ↗

— Lee Haney

#cliche #example #first #i #i do

Which Israel should we recognize? The Israel of 1917; the Israel of 1936; the Israel of 1948; the Israel of 1956; or the Israel of 1967? Which borders and which Israel? Israel has to recognize first the Palestinian state and its borders and then we will know what we are talking about. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#borders #first #israel #know #palestinian

The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives. States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#body #created #decisions #established #first

You can't knock somebody for how they got into the business. I'm sure I'm gonna look back at 'Roswell' and some of my first movies and I'm gonna cringe. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#business #cringe #first #gonna #got