The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.
When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.
The problem is when [the state] monitor all of us, en masse, all of the time, without any specific justification for intercepting in the first place, without any specific judicial showing that there's a probable cause for that infringement of our rights.
Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.
Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.
I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.
There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.
Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.
It doesn't take much to produce a good merchant of cash-and-carry love: just courage, an infinite capacity for perpetual suspicion, stamina on a 24-hour-a-day basis, the deathless conviction that the customer is always wrong, a fair knowledge of first and second aid, do-it-yourself gynecology, judo - and a tremendous sense of humor.
That's the first band I ever played in that was working and I was getting paid for it. I was 12. The other guys were a lot older than me.
My first book was the book that changed my life.
If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.
I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and. . . well. . . it really sucked. It was a plotless, clichéd mess.
Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.
The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.
It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.
First, we are born in the same galaxy. Born of the same species. Our lifetimes overlap. The meetings between humans are so unlikely as to be miraculous. To laugh, to cry, and to fall in love. Everyone is made up of a collection of 1% chances. Thus, I am dazzled by the fact that there are so many miracles in this world.
I made my first film on 16mm. Then I began using 35mm. Then I began working in Hollywood. And I began to really understand how films were made by professionals. I have to say I wasn't very impressed.
Our attitude is very clear. In effect there is the conflict, ideological conflict which we all know. We have stated our position in the sense of unity among socialist states - unity as a first measure.