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  • But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself. -- Meb Keflezighi
  • Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place. -- Danny Bonaduce
  • A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place. -- Michael Douglas
  • If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window. -- Andrew Wyeth
  • I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm. -- Jesse Eisenberg
  • A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other. -- Oleg Cassini
  • If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place. -- Malorie Blackman
  • I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it. -- James Blunt
  • We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place. -- Jerry Lewis
  • Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs. -- Herman Kahn
  • People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping in touch and getting their news. -- Theophilus London
  • I did the whole struggling actor thing and lucked into being in the right place at the right time and getting involved in the first 'High School Musical.' -- Drew Seeley
  • So, all during the '90s and, you know, for the first half of this decade, we had opportunities to get evacuation plans in place, better communications in place. -- Michael Chertoff
  • Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place. -- Jonathan Ames
  • What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place. -- Stephen Greenblatt
  • Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place. -- William A. Dembski
  • In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. -- Elihu Root
  • If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much. -- Marisa Tomei
  • My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.' -- Julia Roberts
  • Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it. -- Michael Morpurgo
  • It's easier to apologize afterwards than getting something allowed in the first place. -- Clifford Stoll
  • Staying in touch with contacts is as important as getting them in the first place. -- Harvey Mackay
  • Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place. -- Jack Bauer
  • The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in. -- James Howard Kunstler
  • That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired. -- George W. Bush
  • Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration. -- Bryan Mosley
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