First Time Quotes - Page 8

• The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Home, People, Want

  "Billie Joe Armstrong, From Green Day To Broadway". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 27, 2010.

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• Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Beautiful, Mother, Religious

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• Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Flavor, Asia, Firsts

  "The Hot Seat: No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Sarah Bruning, www.timeout.com. September 3, 2012.

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• Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Real, Childhood, Way

  "Chef Anthony Bourdain". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 18, 2010.

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• It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Country, Jobs

  Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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• There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• I can't even remember the first time I started singing.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Singing, Firsts, Remember

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• You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

  Junot Diaz

  Kissing, Discovery, Years

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• Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

  Emily Dickinson

  Done, Literature, Littles

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• I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.

  Vin Diesel

  Running, Hair, Hands

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• For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.

  Patty Duke

  Lonely, Sunset, Ideas

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.8, Bantam

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• I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

  Jessica Lange

  Children, Home, Thinking

  Interview with Ann Roth, April 2006.

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• It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

  Lillie Langtry

  Firsts, Impressed, I Can

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• I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.

  Jaron Lanier

  News Stories, Class, Quirky

  "My bright idea: Jaron Lanier". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

  Avril Lavigne

  Night, Thinking, Careers

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• No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.

  Denis Leary

  Animal, Wife, Matter

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• Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

  Annie Lennox

  Birthday, Mean, Thirty Eight

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• For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

  Jay Leno

  Average, America, People

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• Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Firsts, Innocence, Film

  City Limits magazine, London, April 7, 1988.

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• The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

  Jeremy Lin

  Cameras, Twenties, Taiwan

  "Rocket Man" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. October 16, 2012.

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• My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

  Ryan Lochte

  Senior, Dad, School

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• Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

  Loretta Lynn

  Soldier, Littles, Saws

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, Vintage

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• The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Marine, Hymns, Firsts

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• The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

  John C. Maxwell

  Firsts, Third Time, Heard

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

  Paul McCartney

  Cocky, Done, Firsts

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