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The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
Elvis Presley

Movies, Thought, Again

My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn't mean that it's not forever. Because it is forever.
Rashida Jones

Love, Forget, Mean

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
John T. Flynn

War, Society, Road

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Stephen Fry

Christmas, Travel, Child

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.
Larry Bird

Children, Mean, She

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
Barbara Bush

Good, Great, Important

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
Lord Chesterfield

True, Light, Virtue

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
John Cage

Beautiful, Why, Reason

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
William Osler

Medicine, Masses, Duties

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone

Good, Home, Government

If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
Abu Bakr

Yourself, Control

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

Time, Home, Live

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
Havelock Ellis

Art, End, Human

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
Havelock Ellis

Knowledge, Wish, Old

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.
Lee Haney

Children, Parents, Important

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
John Dryden

Life, Fear, Learned

If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
Camille Paglia

Angry, Blame, Win

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
Ben Affleck

Person, Dead, Call

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
Bono

Mean, Poverty, Whole

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.
Thabo Mbeki

Freedom, Next, Foundation

First we have to believe, and then we believe.
Martha Graham

I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories of all the things in life you want to say... well, maybe those are the films that should have won me the Oscar.
Martin Scorsese

Life, Young, Energy

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.
Martin Scorsese

Moving, Understand, Big

When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?
Christina Aguilera

Facebook, Blogs, Twitter

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Jackie Kennedy

Horse, Lady, Sounds

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
Jackie Kennedy

Mother, Wife, Lady

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Sympathy, Criticism, Condition

Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.
Heidi Klum

I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.
Hugh Jackman

Famous, America, Play

Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.
Hugh Jackman

Book, Revolution, Action

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