First Place Quotes
879 quotes by 707 authors
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That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the…
— William Bartram
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed…
— Frederic Bastiat
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few…
— Joseph Addison
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I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
— Bjork
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As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of…
— Bono
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While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they…
— Elayne Boosler
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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
— Jimmy Breslin
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The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the…
— David R. Brower
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I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a…
— Kobe Bryant
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I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the…
— Sitting Bull
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I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United…
— Naomi Campbell
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When it comes to children, my mom doesn't believe in borders. She loves all children, and that's a good example of mothering the world. I…
— Margaret Cho
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Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of…
— Chuck Close
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The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into…
— Gloria Steinem
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Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.
— George Shearing
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I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that's true for a…
— Teri McKeever
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We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.
— Ronald Reagan
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Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is…
— Barney Frank
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I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense…
— Emma Stone
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