#irs

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#beginning #first #good #life #people

East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door. ↗

— Eva Gabor

#been #door #east #first #hampton

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#appreciation #bands #because #decline #did

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#education #first #line #pacific #second

My dad took me to my first movie. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#first #me #movie #took

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#book #buy #end #first #get

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#became #books #captain #captain america #comic

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#endeavor #first #only #understand #virtue

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#first #flattery #more #none #proud

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#again #bad #bailed #bailout #bank