First Time Quotes - Page 11

• When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Kids, People, Age

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• I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

  Tom Hiddleston

  War, Journey, Play

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• A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspiration, Men, Age

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.178

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• For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Time, Power, Past

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• I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.

  Vanilla Ice

  Years, Firsts, Concerts

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• The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.

  Hugh Jackman

  Song, Night, Australia

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• I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.

  LaToya Jackson

  Firsts, Honest, Feels

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• People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.

  Mick Jagger

  Memories, Talking, People

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• The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

  Naveen Jain

  Entrepreneur, Answers, Firsts

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• The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

  T. D. Jakes

  Destiny, Firsts, Purpose

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• This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

  Etta James

  Song, Years, Tunes

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• The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

  LeBron James

  Nba, Firsts, Court

  "Los Angeles fires dig at Mohamed Al Fayed and Michael Jackson statue" by Giles Richards, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2011.

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• I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.

  Elton John

  Giving Up, Piano, Looks

  "Elton John: 'When I was on drugs there was a monstrous side to me'". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2013.

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• What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

  Norah Jones

  Couple, Thinking, Two

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• The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Games, Generations, London

  "After Olympic success, now make a level playing field for women" by Jackie Joyner-Kersee, inamerica.blogs.cnn.com. August 14, 2012.

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• America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Country, America, Years

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• When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

  Alan King

  Father, Firsts, Oppression

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• A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Sports, Fall

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• Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

  Steve King

  Father, Government, Democracy

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• I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.

  Jack Klugman

  Horse, Fate, Blow

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• A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Dad, Father, Firsts

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• When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Football, School

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• I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Phones, Cells, Firsts

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• I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

  Jessica Lange

  Children, Home, Thinking

  Interview with Ann Roth, April 2006.

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• It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

  Lillie Langtry

  Firsts, Impressed, I Can

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