First Time Quotes - Page 12

• I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.

  Jaron Lanier

  News Stories, Class, Quirky

  "My bright idea: Jaron Lanier". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

  Avril Lavigne

  Night, Thinking, Careers

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• No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.

  Denis Leary

  Animal, Wife, Matter

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• Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

  Annie Lennox

  Birthday, Mean, Thirty Eight

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• For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

  Jay Leno

  Average, America, People

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• Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Firsts, Innocence, Film

  City Limits magazine, London, April 7, 1988.

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• The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

  Jeremy Lin

  Cameras, Twenties, Taiwan

  "Rocket Man" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. October 16, 2012.

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• My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

  Ryan Lochte

  Senior, Dad, School

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• Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

  Loretta Lynn

  Soldier, Littles, Saws

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, Vintage

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• The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Marine, Hymns, Firsts

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• The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

  John C. Maxwell

  Firsts, Third Time, Heard

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

  Paul McCartney

  Cocky, Done, Firsts

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• When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Firsts, Six, Making Money

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• Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

  Ewan McGregor

  Imagination, Scripts, Firsts

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• When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, Math, Thinking

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• For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

  Margaret Mead

  Media, History, Being Sad

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• Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

  Margaret Mead

  Life, Jumping, Firsts

  MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”

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• Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L'Oreal Paris iconic lipstick - it was instant glamour and I've been hooked ever since.

  Lea Michele

  Growing Up, Makeup, Paris

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• I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.

  David Millar

  Team, Lazy, Legs

  "This much I know: David Millar". Interview with Martin Love, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2011.

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• The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.

  David Millar

  Car, Four, Firsts

  "This much I know: David Millar". Interview with Martin Love, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2011.

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• Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Atheist, Humor

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• When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

  Sienna Miller

  Heart, Broken, Gains

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• For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Intelligent, Careers

  "Joni on Point". Interview With Nic Harcourt, www.latimes.com. June 7, 2009.

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• When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.

  Moby

  Depressing, Thinking, People

  "Moby takes sober look at his life as a musician". Interview With Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. June 13, 2013.

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• I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.

  Mandy Moore

  Choices, Parent, Overcoming

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