First Place Quotes
879 First Place quotes by 662 unique authors
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We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be…
— Simon Sinek
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For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and…
— Iain Duncan Smith
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Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's possible. And it's your turn. So…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we…
— John Sununu
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Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
— Harry S. Truman
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
— Mark Twain
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Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy…
— Rick Warren
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Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has…
— Daniel H. Wilson
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Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
— Woodrow Wilson
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No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first…
— Julian Baggini
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Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to…
— Douglas Adams
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Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in school,athletics,artistic pursuits. We…
— Marya Hornbacher
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maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at…
— Douglas Coupland
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Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That…
— Annie Dillard
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So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense…
— Tom Robbins
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I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?
— Art Buchwald
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Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate…
— Bill Watterson
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The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.
— John O'Hara
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If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even…
— Hermann Hesse
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