First Time Quotes - Page 34

• America, I'm gonna shoot straight with you, I think I've wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time. I apologize for that.

  Glenn Beck

  Time, Thinking, America

  "The Massa Circus Takes the Air out of Glenn Beck" by Kevin Allocca, www.adweek.com. March 9, 2010.

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• When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.

  Antonio Porchia

  Time, Firsts, Dies

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Night, Boston

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.181, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Time, Real, Bread

  "Economics And Politics In The Era Of The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat". Pravda, No. 250, November 07, 1919. Collected Works, Volume 30, pages 107-117, www.marxists.org.

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• The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

  Tom Robbins

  Time, Legs, Firsts

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.208, Bantam

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• We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Business, Technology, Numbers

  "Online Extra: Pierre Omidyar on "Connecting People"". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2005.

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• nd now that man's history has been for the first time systematically considered as a whole, and has been found to be, like all other phenomena, subject to invariable laws, the preparatory labours of modern Science are ended.

  Auguste Comte

  Law, History, Firsts

  "A General View of Positivism".

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• In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

  Nancy Astor

  Funny, Women, Empowering

  My Two Countries ch. 1 (1923)

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• This day I breathed first: time is come round,
  And where I did begin there shall I end;
  My life is run his compass.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Firsts

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 3, l. 23

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• When I first saw you, I saw love
  And the first time you touched me, I felt love
  And after all this time,
  You're still the one I love.

  Shania Twain

  Life, Saws, Firsts

  Song: You're Still The One

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• Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Wish, Firsts

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• When Bird came on the scene, it was just as shocking as in the Bible: everything was dark, and then the light appeared for the first time.

  Shorty Rogers

  Music, Dark, Light

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• The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Eye, Play

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• Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Wish, Firsts

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• I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

  Sean Penn

  Daughter, Parenting, Firsts

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• ~I've learned the value of absorbing the moment. I remember the first time Ripley saw her shadow. My God, it was like shadows had just been invented. It was the most exquisite moment.~

  Thandie Newton

  Parenting, Shadow, Saws

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• ~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?... Well, I didn't anticipate that was going to be about a two-second dilemma. I didn't know the choices would be so easy to make.~

  Jodie Foster

  School, Parenting, Boys

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• Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

  Christopher Fry

  Men, Poetry, Heaven

  Time, New York, April 3, 1950.

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• Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Poetry, Mind, Sound

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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• Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defeating. In conceding the 1996 election, I remarked that "tomorrow will be the first time in my life I don't have anything to do." I was wrong. Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show.

  Bob Dole

  Hurt, Night, Self

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• This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

  Jody Williams

  Victory, World, Politics

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• When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher, says to me, "When you make love, you must be making love." I thought that was the greatest advice I had ever heard.

  Woody Harrelson

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Spiritual

  "Woody Harrelson: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'Agostino, www.esquire.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Time, Women, Memorable

  Katharine Whitehorn (1981). “View from a Column”

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• To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

  Bill Bryson

  Life, Summer, Travel

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• When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

  Yuri Gagarin

  Beautiful, Space, Earth

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