First Time Quotes - Page 8

• I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

  Jensen Ackles

  Girl, Firsts, Nervous

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• When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!

  Amy Adams

  Hair, Personality, Blonde

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• The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive agreement which would see all outstanding matters dealt with and the Good Friday Agreement implemented in full.

  Gerry Adams

  Friday, Agreement, Matter

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

  Alan Alda

  Home, Six Months, Firsts

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• The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Clever, Church Choir

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• We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

  Fred Allen

  Historical, Competition, Comedian

  Fred Allen (2016). “Treadmill to Oblivion”, p.179, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.

  Isabel Allende

  New Orleans, Historical, Stories

  "Allende Examines the Caribbean's Chaotic History Through New Novel". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 23, 2010.

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• The first time, where Fox Mulder and Scully met, she stands up for herself. She stands right there and gives it to him and that was extremely attractive.

  Gillian Anderson

  Giving, Firsts, Foxes

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• The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath!

  Jennifer Aniston

  Knees, Firsts, Weak

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• I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

  Joan of Arc

  Years, Voice, Firsts

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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 a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

  Hannah Arendt

  Punishment, Criminals, Firsts

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.238, Penguin

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• The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide

  Haiti, Firsts, Election

  "An Exclusive Interview With Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide". Interview with Nicolas Rossier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.

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• The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Home, People, Want

  "Billie Joe Armstrong, From Green Day To Broadway". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 27, 2010.

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• I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.

  David Attenborough

  Moving, Coral Reefs, Firsts

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• When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

  Lauren Bacall

  First Love, Feelings, Lucky

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• In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Baseball, Country, Kids

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• And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

  Alan Ball

  Growing Up, Philosophy, Buddhism

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• If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.

  Travis Barker

  Boys, Play, Listening

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

  Beck

  Fashion, Years, Different

  Interview w ith Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.

  Glenn Beck

  Dad, Guy, African American

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• I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

  Josh Billings

  Life, Time, Long

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Baby, Singing, Singers

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• I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what is going on in the hit parades around the world. I have no prejudices for any kind of music genre, and I listen with pleasure to many songs on the radio that my children already know of by heart, while I hear them practically for the first time.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Song, Children, Heart

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• Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Beautiful, Mother, Religious

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• Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Flavor, Asia, Firsts

  "The Hot Seat: No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Sarah Bruning, www.timeout.com. September 3, 2012.

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