First Time Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Firsts, Six, Making Money

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• For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Mean, Way, Firsts

  "The Future of Facebook". Interview with Laura Locke, content.time.com. July 17, 2007.

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• I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote the book and the organizers invited me and it seemed silly not to go, especially for a relatively unknown first-time author. This is just not my cup of tea; the fewer such events I do on an annual basis, the happier I feel.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Silly, Book, Mean

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• When a book comes from the publisher and you see it for the first time... Of course it's not remotely like seeing a baby for the first time, but I can remember with each book what room I was in when I opened it. That would be excitement, though, I think. Not pride.

  Colm Toibin

  Baby, Book, Pride

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• The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. ... Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Basketball, Believe

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• She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it had time to make sense, by the word that came next; so that in the end she did not know what had been said. It was like difficult music heard for the first time.

  Samuel Beckett

  Next, Firsts, Ends

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.96, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment he begins to use words like colors in a painting, a writer can begin to see how wondrous and surprising the world is, and he breaks the bones of language to find his own voice. For this he needs paper, a pen, and the optimism of a child looking at the world for the first time.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Children, Color, Voice

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Other Colours”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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• at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again

  Werner Herzog

  Sea, World, Firsts

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• It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.

  Steven Wright

  Firsts, Killing, Killing Myself

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• I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it’s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you’re on your own.

  James Beard

  Ideas, Secret, Trying

  James Beard (1974). “The best of Beard: great recipes from a great cook”

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• The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

  Scott Adams

  Running, Food, Firsts

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.448, Penguin

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• The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  New York, Bridges, Cities

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.517, e-artnow

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• When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

  James M. Barrie

  Baby, Laughing, Nests

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.128, 谷月社

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• My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sex, Teenager, Funny Relationship

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while – by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once you’ve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when it’s time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Notebook, Fighting, Long

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

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