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I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.
— Art Buchwald
Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.
— Valerie Trierweiler
Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.
— Marjane Satrapi
Loyalty is not won by being first. It is won by being best.
— Stefan Persson
Bruce Lee was the first guy to bring film recognition of Asian men not being wimps, so it made me want to be as powerful as he was.
— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Being first lady is not just about being the wife but really taking command and having true vision.
— Tyra Banks
Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.
— Pedro Martinez
I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
— John Banham
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
— Warren G. Bennis
I have said that I'm not running and I'm having a great time being pres - being a first-term senator.
— Hillary Clinton
Jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.
— Storm Jameson
But, as Andy pointed out, if being a smart-arse was an offence, the Laundry would not exist in the first place.
— Charles Stross
Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches.
— Rita Rudner
And of course, being a gentleman, he let her go first, not that there was any kind of thank-you.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
Being, not doing, is my first joy.
— Theodore Roethke
I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates.
— Michael Ovitz
Foul-ups in testing are not uncommon, especially when the test setup is being tried for the first time.
— Henry Spencer
I definitely felt out of place at first, not unlike being lactose intolerant in Wisconsin.
— Jared Brock
Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Because America, being a democracy, could not strike first, but had to wait - wait in instant readiness - until she was actually attacked.
— E.E. "Doc" Smith
What some people love is not a person but the experience of being in love. The first is irreplaceable; the second is not.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
— Richard Armour
I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.
— Jillian Michaels
Yes, you're very very oldBut try to think of it as not being cursed
After all, in a hostage situation
You'd be released first! — John Walter Bratton
He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.
— Terry Pratchett
Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.
— Tom Wolfe
I'm the one erased. Or I guess I'm not even that, because the thing about being erased is that first you have to leave a mark.
— Robyn Schneider
If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.
— Thomas Merton
For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 'And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived in the transgression.
— Margaret Atwood
He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.
— John Le Carre
A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?
— Gertrude Atherton
Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one
— Tom Peters
This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.
— Neal Shusterman
The shadow of someone's greatness is not a good place to dwell. Being the next someone else pales into insignificance against being the first you.
— John Paul Bernett
In race of life, it does not matter who finishes first. What matters most is being able to complete your race.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We will have nothing substantial to offer anyone else so long as we have not first mastered the art of being patient midwives to our own thoughts.
— Alain De Botton
Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else.
— Lewis Carroll
Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.
— Pharrell Williams
When soldiers go home, their first desire, whether they know it or not, is to have children, children being the only antidote for war.
— Mark Helprin
My mouth dries up. I know I am not apologizing for the picture. I am sorry for being there in the first place.
— Lynda Mullaly Hunt
One of the first things we have to let go of is not being able to let go of anybody.
— Merrit Malloy
The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
— Marjane Satrapi
I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
— Woody Allen
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
— Pat Roberts
Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
