#first thing

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

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The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times. ↗

— Lucy Powell

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The first thing I feel like we have the potential to do is to deliver to consumers more roots to their home. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

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As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#few #first #first thing #old #phone

What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down. ↗

— Dennis Muren

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you. ↗

— Ice T

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My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

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When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

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