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First Quotes

"The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity."

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss Theologian

First, Passion, Unity

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"The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave."

Imelda Marcos, Filipino Celebrity

First, Ladies, Problems

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"I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister."

Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Statesman

First, Israel, Old, Years

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"First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef."

Martin Yan, Chinese Celebrity

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"And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez."

Ruben Blades, Panamanian Musician

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"Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone."

Jesus Christ, Jewish Clergyman

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"Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not."

Jose Ramos Horta, East Timorese Politician

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"Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course."

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish Musician

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"Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down."

Paul Newman, American Actor

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"The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts."

Paul R. Ehrlich, American Scientist

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"I was a guitar player first off."

Boz Scaggs, American Musician

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"Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album."

John Mellencamp, American Musician

"First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck."

A. I. Bezzerides, American Screenwriter

"I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't."

Patrick Murray, British Actor

First, Luck, Wives

"First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for "The Passion of the Christ"? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff."

Rob Schneider, American Comedian

First, Hate, Passion

"Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia."

Kitty O'Neill Collins, American Stuntwoman

First, Man, Woman

"I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold."

John Dyer, American Poet

First, Interest

"The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount."

Kinky Friedman, American Musician

""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

First, Meaning, Old, Principles

"When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star."

David Bowie, English Musician

"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."

Charles W. Colson, American Lawyer

"I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox."

Jack Osbourne, English Celebrity

"Well, first, I didn't kill Dr. King."

James Earl Ray, American Criminal

"I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all."

Michael W. Smith, American Musician

"For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards."

Brian Eno, British Musician

"Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978."

Greg Ginn, American Musician

"After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine."

Claire Forlani, English Actress

"When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me."

Deborah Cox, Canadian Musician

"When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever."

Jody Watley, American Musician

First, Passion, Relationships

"He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke."

Robert Herrick, British Poet

"But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place."

Terry Kath, American Musician

First, Guitar, Man

"I think my first bikini, I was four and it was polka dotted and I had a big belly and I looked dashing."

Ashley Scott, American Actress

"Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State."

Duc De Richelieu, French Cardinal

First, Secrecy, State

"First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on."

Garry Shandling, American Comedian

"Good leaders must first become good servants."

Robert Greenleaf, American Writer

"If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos."

Jon Bon Jovi, American Musician

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

First, Man, Months

"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."

Mario Monti, Italian Public Servant

"My first album came out in 1979."

Teena Marie, American Musician

"I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project."

Tatyana Ali, American Actress

First, Play, Project, Theater

"If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone."

Lenny Bruce, American Comedian

"We gave the show away and in return, we received a certain number of minutes per hour for the three-hour show that we could sell to Madison Avenue. One of the first sponsors was MGM Records."

Casey Kasem, American Broadcaster

"The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional."

Klaus Schulze, German Composer

"Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous."

Bruce Springsteen, American Musician

First, Friends, Gay, Obvious

"I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager."

Kathy Valentine, American Musician

"My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got."

Kerry King, American Musician

"I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it."

Sergio Aragones, Spanish Cartoonist

First, Horror, Jobs, Mystery

"Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself."

Jonathan Brandis, American Actor

"Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists."

Serge Lang, American Mathematician

First, Scientists

"I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing."

Marlee Matlin, American Actress

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