First Time Quotes - Page 40

• I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Agents, Firsts

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It proceeds from your unconscious. So it's the same surprise to you when it emerges as it is to the audience when the comic says it. I don't think of the joke and then say it. I say it and then realize what I've said. And I laugh at it, because I'm hearing it for the first time myself.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Thinking, Laughing

  "Woody Allen: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 8, 2013.

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• The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Want Something, Minorities

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

  Karl Marx

  Historical, Tragedy, Farce

  Karl Marx (1935). “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, New York : International publishers

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• There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Boys, Views, Lines

  Sherwood Anderson (1995). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague.... It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.

  Mike Huckabee

  Rights, Government, Civilization

  "Huckabee Denies He Ever Called For Quarantining AIDS Patients, Contradicts His Own Comments". The Associated Press Interview, thinkprogress.org. 1992.

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• In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history.
  That's an astounding fact and it isn't until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time in recorded human history marriage defined as anything other than between men and between women.

  Michele Bachmann

  Men, Years, East

  "Bachmann burns up Iowa". www.politico.com. April 11, 2011.

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• This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

  James Baker

  Hype, President, Trying

  "36 Days that Gripped the Nation" by CNN, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2001.

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• We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4249, Delphi Classics

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• All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

  Studs Terkel

  Jobs, War, Book

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies

  June Allyson

  Baby, Important, Firsts

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• When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.

  Meg Rosoff

  Book, Character, Kissing

  "World Book Night: Meg Rosoff on Mal Peet" by Meg Rosoff, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 23, 2012.

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• It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're going to end up doing something that he's probably already done before. It always seem like we're falling behind whatever he came up with. "Singin' in the Rain" (1952) in "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) - that was the first time I became so aware of music in movies. So no matter how hard you try to do something new, you're always following behind.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Rain, Fall, Orange

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Keys, Firsts, Pretending

  "The Fortress of Solitude". Book by Jonathan Lethem, September 16, 2003.

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• I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.

  Amos Oz

  Years, Two, People

  "Coping with Conflict: Israeli Author Amos Oz". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. January 22, 2002.

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• Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren't all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I'd light a match.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Light, Careers

  "The Chronicle of Higher Education" Newspaper, November 12. 1999.

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• Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Drunk, Firsts

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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• In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart," in which we tell our needs. . . . We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to a appear better than we really are.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Country, Spiritual, Morning

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• ...And so we go and I meet his parents. And it's a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend's boyfriend's parents for the first time. Part of you is angry for obvious reasons and part of you still wants to make a good impression. On a side note, they seemed in perfect health.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Girlfriend, Humor

  Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

  Harlan Ellison

  Peace, War, Race

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• The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree...Mr. David Lynch, a prodigious coffee drinker, apparently pees hard and often.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Coffee, Eye

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• Since I was 15 years old I've never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl.

  Brendan Shanahan

  Halloween, Years, Family And Friends

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• I have cervical cancer. I'm what they call a DES baby... I have been cancer free for 7 years now... I had it the first time when I was 19 and then it came back a few years later after I went through treatment.

  Amy Weber

  Baby, Cancer, Years

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• With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

  Cathy Freeman

  Cancer, Knees, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

  Ike Skelton

  Cancer, Years, Numbers

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