First Place Quotes

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Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want… — William Least Heat-Moon
Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place to have… — Dan Quayle
I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place. — Sam Raimi
I'm not a first-place person. — Amy Sedaris
There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the… — Esa-Pekka Salonen
Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into… — Joy Williams
Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the… — Jim Hightower
As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place. — Edward Norton
We often see people every day searching in the wrong places for the things they desire. Too many of our fellow humans try to find… — John Templeton
Spiritual beings do not sweat life's small stuff. They also know that most of what drives us crazy in life is small stuff. The only… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not ... I expect that's the… — Paul Dirac
... All the drivers that started the replace-tape-with-disk movement in the first place - reliability, performance, portability and off-site data movement - are now liabilities… — George Arthur Crump
The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies.… — Adolf Hitler
This is the first place in the United States where I sang, and I like San Francisco better than any other city in the world.… — Luisa Tetrazzini
So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use… — Jan Karon
Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and… — Marisa Tomei
School doesn't teach you the three most important things in the world: how to have relationships, how to raise children and, most importantly, why on… — Clive Stafford Smith
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex… — Terry Eagleton
Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web… — Larry Wall

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