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Well, that was certainly - to me, until we could film in Charles' room, I didn't even want to bother filming anything else. And in fact, I did hold off and that was the first thing we filmed.
Author:
Terry Zwigoff
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I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.
Author:
Fritz Zwicky
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There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.
Author:
Edward Zwick
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The first step toward liberty is to miss liberty; the second, to seek it; the third, to find it.
Author:
Leopold Zunz
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I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.
Author:
Ernst Zundel
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So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens.
Author:
David Zucker
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I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey.
Author:
Rob Zombie
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When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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Communists should be the first to be concerned about other people and country and the last to enjoy themselves.
Author:
Zhao Ziyang
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Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.
Author:
Chuck Zito
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So it just goes to show you that it was always the Hells Angels first. They were the originals and all other clubs try and imitate what the Hells Angels have already done.
Author:
Chuck Zito
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My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.
Author:
Philip Zimbardo
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
Author:
Zig Ziglar
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It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.
Author:
Zinedine Zidane
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I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.
Author:
Zinedine Zidane
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
Author:
Xun Zi
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China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.
Author:
Ziyi Zhang
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My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.
Author:
Warren Zevon
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
Author:
Warren Zevon
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Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
Author:
Warren Zevon
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When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online.
Author:
Niklas Zennstrom
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I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.
Author:
Pieter Zeeman
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If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
Author:
Jamie Zawinski
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First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
Author:
Peter Zarlenga
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My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.
Author:
Moon Zappa
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Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
Author:
Darryl Zanuck
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The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
Author:
Israel Zangwill
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I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.
Author:
Giuseppe Zangara
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For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
Author:
Billy Zane
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That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!
Author:
Henny Youngman
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My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.
Author:
Henny Youngman
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He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything - his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.
Author:
Jack Youngblood
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The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
Author:
Neil Young
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The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Author:
Margaret Young
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Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
Author:
Thom Yorke
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Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.
Author:
Dick York
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I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.
Author:
Dick York
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Author:
Paramahansa Yogananda
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
Author:
Zhang Yimou
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First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.
Author:
Tim Yeo
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One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
Author:
William Yeats
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
Author:
Carl Yastrzemski
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I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.
Author:
Viktor Yanukovych
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I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.
Author:
Chen Yang
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First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.
Author:
Martin Yan
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The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory.
Author:
Isoroku Yamamoto
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When I first skated here, I definitely felt small out there because it is such a big surface.
Author:
Kristi Yamaguchi
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Let some people get rich first.
Author:
Deng Xiaoping
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The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
Author:
Bill Wyman
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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
Author:
Bill Wyman
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I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.
Author:
Noah Wyle
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At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
Author:
Andrew Wyeth
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Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.
Author:
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.
Author:
Wilhelm Wundt
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With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Author:
Orville Wright
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The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
Author:
Orville Wright
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When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.
Author:
Orville Wright
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
Author:
Orville Wright
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Author:
Frank Wright
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"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.
Author:
Frank Wright
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
Author:
Francis Wright
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Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
Author:
Francis Wright
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But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.
Author:
Bernie Worrell
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.
Author:
Bob Woodward
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The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.
Author:
Tiger Woods
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Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.
Author:
Leonard Woodcock
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And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we bad to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.
Author:
Leonard Woodcock
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Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
Author:
George Woodberry
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The first people I ever saw were probably Little Richard and Gene Vincent.
Author:
Roy Wood
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When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.
Author:
Roy Wood
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When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.
Author:
Roy Wood
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When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.
Author:
Ron Wood
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When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin' art collectors and everything!
Author:
Ron Wood
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Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.
Author:
Douglas Wood
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
Author:
Beatrice Wood
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My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts.
Author:
Wayne Wonder
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Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted.
Author:
Stephen Wolfram
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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
Author:
Tobias Wolff
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So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.
Author:
James Wolfensohn
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I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.
Author:
Gene Wolfe
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Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is that the ability of string theory to describe all the elementary particles and their forces along with gravity depends on using the extra dimensions.
Author:
Edward Witten
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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
Author:
Katarina Witt
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For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.
Author:
Reese Witherspoon
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I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.
Author:
John Wise
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In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.
Author:
John Wise
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When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
Author:
John Wise
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The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.
Author:
John Wise
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Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.
Author:
Bob Wise
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I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.
Author:
Norman Wisdom
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As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
Author:
Norman Wisdom
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I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.
Author:
Johnny Winter
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Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases.
Author:
Henry Winkler
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A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.
Author:
Henry Winkler
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It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.
Author:
Kip Winger
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.
Author:
Dave Winfield
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I first met Walt Disney 25 or 30 years ago.
Author:
Paul Winchell
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I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.
Author:
Pete Wilson
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I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first time in the industry's history that we've had console machines that can handle all that PC developers can deliver.
Author:
Mike Wilson
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I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.
Author:
Malcolm Wilson
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I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.
Author:
Lanford Wilson
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But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.
Author:
Lanford Wilson
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First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.
Author:
Carl Wilson
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I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
Author:
August Wilson
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I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record.
Author:
Ann Wilson
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Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.
Author:
Ann Wilson
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The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground.
Author:
Bruce Willis
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The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.
Author:
Henry Williamson
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For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.
Author:
Treat Williams
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It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of a play, it falls apart completely and the rehearsal process is such that you begin to pick up the pieces and put it back together again.
Author:
Treat Williams
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Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.
Author:
Serena Williams
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The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.
Author:
Roy Williams
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What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.
Author:
Roy Williams
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As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more.
Author:
Montel Williams
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When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'
Author:
Mary Williams
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I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.
Author:
Lucinda Williams
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Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.
Author:
Juan Williams
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It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.
Author:
Jobeth Williams
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Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
Author:
Esther Williams
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I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.
Author:
Esther Williams
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Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.
Author:
Esther Williams
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For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.
Author:
Prince William
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When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there.
Author:
Prince William
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My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.
Author:
Geoffrey Wilkinson
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If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.
Author:
Lenny Wilkens
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When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in the East Village every day. I'd be at work wearing a fake bulletproof vest with foam in it, then I'd leave and put on a real one to ride around with these guys.
Author:
Jason Wiles
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The first black president will be a politician who is black.
Author:
Doug Wilder
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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.
Author:
Ken Wilber
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You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.
Author:
Sue Wicks
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One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.
Author:
Roger Wicker
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.
Author:
Meg Whitman
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To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.
Author:
Christine Whitman
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The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody.
Author:
Margaret Whiting
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Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
Author:
Katherine Whitehorn
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The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.
Author:
George Whitefield
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The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.
Author:
George Whitefield
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The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
Author:
George Whitefield
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Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.
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Ryan White
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Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single.
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Meg White
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It sounded good. It was a story that Victor Conte told me to use. I was contacted by Dr. Goldman, and that's how the story came about. And that was my first time ever meeting, or speaking, to Dr. Goldman.
Author:
Kelli White
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The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
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Edmund White
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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
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E. White
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It's almost scary how good things are right now. I've been engaged now for about a year, and it's the first time anything like that has happened to me.
Author:
Bryan White
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As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.
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Joss Whedon
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There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.
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Paul Weyrich
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I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
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Vivienne Westwood
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You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.
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Kim Weston
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It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
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William Westmoreland
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I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
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William Westmoreland
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Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
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William Westmoreland
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Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.
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Paul Westerberg
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It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought.
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Paul Westerberg
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I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.
Author:
Paul Westerberg
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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Randy West
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Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.
Author:
Randy West
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As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.
Author:
Randy West
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We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
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Kanye West
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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Author:
Jessamyn West
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My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
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Mary Wesley
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Sometimes I wish the girl would make the first move.
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Devon Werkheiser
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I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.
Author:
Arsene Wenger
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In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
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Eudora Welty
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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
Author:
Eudora Welty
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
Author:
Paul Wellstone
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You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
Author:
H. Wells
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Acting is my first love.
Author:
Dawn Wells
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When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.
Author:
Lawrence Welk
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The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
Author:
Lawrence Welk
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Author:
Fay Weldon
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I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.
Author:
William Weld
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For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.
Author:
Robert Welch
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And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.
Author:
Robert Welch
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It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.
Author:
Robert Welch
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
Author:
Stanley Weiser
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When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.
Author:
Len Wein
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When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.
Author:
Len Wein
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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Author:
Simone Weil
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That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.
Author:
Cynthia Weil
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First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
Author:
Andre Weil
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When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.
Author:
Dean Ween
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Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.
Author:
Chris Wedge
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
Author:
Noah Webster
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Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.
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Karrie Webb
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
Author:
Jackie Weaver
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I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
Author:
Jackie Weaver
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The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
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Earl Weaver
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For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.
Author:
Shawn Wayans
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I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.
Author:
Keenen Wayans
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There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.
Author:
Keenen Wayans
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We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
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Evelyn Waugh
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I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music.
Author:
Doc Watson
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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.
Author:
Jody Watley
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Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
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Sam Waterston
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Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.
Author:
Crystal Waters
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We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.
Author:
Lew Wasserman
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Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
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George Washington
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
Author:
George Washington
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My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!
Author:
Denzel Washington
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I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.
Author:
Robert Warren
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Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.
Author:
Josiah Warren
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Author:
Earl Warren
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The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
Author:
Harold Warner
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Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
Author:
Charles Warner
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With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.
Author:
Shane Warne
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The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball.
Author:
Shane Warne
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When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
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Andy Warhol
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A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.
Author:
Mary Ward
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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Lalla Ward
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
Author:
Lalla Ward
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I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money.
Author:
Fred Ward
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I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.
Author:
Burt Ward
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Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready.
Author:
Paul Waner
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Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.
Author:
Zack Wamp
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
Author:
Zach Wamp
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When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
Author:
Joseph Wambaugh
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First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract.
Author:
Rob Walton
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The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day.
Author:
Rob Walton
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CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.
Author:
Jim Walton
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In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to.
Author:
John Walters
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
Author:
Barbara Walters
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I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.
Author:
Neale Walsch
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In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Author:
Hugh Walpole
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The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.
Author:
David Walliams
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As a result of the 'hung' election of November 1932. Hitler set in motion the first of the 9 steps he would take in the next 52 days, which would, finally, bring him absolute power.
Author:
William Waller
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I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.
Author:
Eli Wallach
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Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
Author:
Larry Wall
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Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational.
Author:
David Walker
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I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.
Author:
Greg Walden
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I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.
Author:
Rick Wakeman
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In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way.
Author:
Andrzej Wajda
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First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
Author:
Arthur Waite
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Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.
Author:
Abdurrahman Wahid
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I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.
Author:
Rick Wagoner
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
Author:
Walter Wager
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You can never conquer us, we will die first.
Author:
Benjamin Wade
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I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.
Author:
Sarah Vowell
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The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.
Author:
Carol Vorderman
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He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
Author:
Voltaire
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Author:
Voltaire
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What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Author:
Voltaire
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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Author:
Voltaire
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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
Author:
Voltaire
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
Author:
A. Vogt
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Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
Author:
A. Vogt
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I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.
Author:
Miroslav Vitous
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The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.
Author:
Tony Visconti
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My first was in 1994 and it's ten years ago already. It's been ten years and I'm still around. I won a stage again, like I did last year and the year before.
Author:
Richard Virenque
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Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.
Author:
Bobby Vinton
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I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.
Author:
Joan Vinge
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.
Author:
Gilles Villeneuve
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I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
Author:
Alfred Vigny
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
Author:
Giambattista Vico
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But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.
Author:
Linda Vester
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It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.
Author:
Tom Verlaine
