First Place Quotes

879 quotes by 662 authors

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work.… — Susie Orbach
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place. — Macaulay Culkin
I love, love, love fashion so much. That's why I became a model in the first place. — Linda Evangelista
Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in… — Jonathan Ames
Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place. — Danny Bonaduce
I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing… — James Blunt
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. — James Mark Baldwin
I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative… — David Cook
The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place… — Ahmed Chalabi
The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again. — Billy Campbell
We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place. — David Agus
Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how… — William A. Dembski
For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place. — Owen Arthur
When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome. — Leif Garrett
As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this… — Zach Galifianakis
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. — Margaret Haddix
Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with… — Sally Hawkins
The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first… — Sebastian Junger
If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when… — Madonna Ciccone
If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the… — R. Kelly

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