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Firsts Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a…
- I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage…
- Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the…
- That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.†That’s…
- You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour