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• As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Trying, Firsts

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.162, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in examining all the nuances and idiosyncrasies of particular stories of everyday people. And if that doesn't happen, then I usually transplant myself and my own stories to a particular historical event. Which is why you'll see me, the first person pronoun, interacting in a song about Carl Sandburg, or you'll find my [sic] interacting with Saul Bellow. It's sort of a re-rendering of history and making it my own.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk song, the storytelling tradition in folk music. And so for years I wrote mostly story songs. I still do that, but as I've gone on, it's gotten a little more personal. I used to write mostly in the third person. I write a little more in the first person now.

  Bruce Hornsby

  Song, Writing, Years

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• Professional marriage counselors agree that the most productive and mature way to deal with marital anger is to stomp dramatically from the room. You want to make your move before the opponent does, because the first person to stomp from the room receives valuable Argument Points that can be redeemed for exciting merchandise at the Marital Prize Redemption Center.

  Dave Barry

  Moving, Funny Marriage, Doe

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.208, Crown Archetype

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• On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown.

  Shahrnush Parsipur

  People, Swim, Way

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• Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.

  Kurtis Blow

  Saws, Firsts, Turntables

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• I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.

  Diane di Prima

  Truth, Thinking, Two

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• I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Thinking, Years, Black

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Take Root Media

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• After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.

  Naomi Campbell

  Firsts, Versace, Call Me

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• I trust my mom with anything. If I have a problem, my mom is always the first person I go to.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Trust, Mom, Firsts

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• I have often wondered who was the first person to realize that eating an artichoke was a good idea.

  Chris Cosentino

  Ideas, Firsts, Realizing

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• When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Writing, Scary, Firsts

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• Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.

  Cookie Mueller

  Cancer, Clothes, Worry

  Cookie Mueller (1997). “Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller”, Serpent's Tail

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• In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you know that you're not the first person in a place

  Tracy Kidder

  Way, Firsts, Landmarks

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• The reward of the young scientist is the emotional th
  rill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience The reward of the old scientist is the sense of having seen a vague sketch grow into a masterly landscape.

  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

  Emotional, World, Landscape

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• I have an interest in making first-person games.

  Fumito Ueda

  Games, Firsts, Interest

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• Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. I am not the first person to point out that writing a lot of crap doesnt sound like a particularly fruitful way to spend an entire month, even if it is November.

  Laura Miller

  Mistake, Writing, Organization

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• A lot of individuals are so worried about being politically correct. I'd rather go ahead and say what's on my mind than to sit there and come up with some PC 'Oh, the guy is a great fighter and I have a lot of respect for him.' If I don't mean it, why is it even coming out of my mouth? ... I want to fight Lesnar. I hate who he is as a person. I want to break his neck in the ring. I want him to be the first person that dies due to Octagon-related injuries. That's what's going through my mind.

  Frank Mir

  Hate, Mean, Fighting

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• Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Inspirational, Graduation, Hurt

  Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

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• The first person you have to resurrect is yourself

  RZA

  Firsts, Persons

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.64, Penguin

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• I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

  St. Lucia

  Mother, Art, Firsts

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

  Robert Hass

  Firsts, Milton, Sonnet

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Thinking, Climbing

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• Ken Griffey changed the game, but he also represented pop culture and the youth - how he wore his hat backwards, how he swung the bat and walked off...he brought energy to the game, class to the game. He was kind of the first person I really watched. He was a big influence.

  Russell Wilson

  Games, Class, Energy

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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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.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Ghetto, School, College

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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