First Place Quotes

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Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and… — Jonny Lee Miller
My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope… — Jackie Evancho
The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until… — Walt Kelly
Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place — Ben Richards
I don't believe in open relationships. If you want to be with someone else, you shouldn't be in a relationship in the first place. — Pixie Lott
People who have known a person for many days but could never spot or appreciate his hidden talent in the first place, are likely to… — Unknown Author
You will make mistakes, disappoint God and others, and have days when you wonder why God ever called you in the first place. Donâ€™t despair!… — Jeff Iorg
It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place â€” it was a love of the air and sky and flying,… — Charles Lindbergh
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Helpless, tortured, shot, blown up, my best buddies all dead, and all because we were afraid of the liberals back home, afraid to do what… — Marcus Luttrell
It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the… — Desiderius Erasmus
Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system. — Brian Aldiss
You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or… — Tom Shales
The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching… — Plato
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place. — Calvin Trillin
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing… — Jonathan Swift
East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above… — Eva Gabor
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in… — Gunter Grass
Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of… — Charles Kennedy

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