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In its first 30 years of existence, up to the mid 1970s, the practical applications of game theory were very limited, probably as a result of excessive preoccupation by game theorists with cooperative solution concepts.

Quotes by John Harsanyi

The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.

Quotes by John Grant

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

John Green

Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.

Quotes by John Gregory Dunne

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

Quotes by John Grisham

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Quotes by John Gielgud

I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

Quotes by John Galliano

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

Quotes by John George Nicolay

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

Quotes by John Foxe

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

Quotes by John Frankenheimer

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

Quotes by John Frankenheimer

The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.

Quotes by John Frankenheimer

At 'Women's Wear', I always said, 'Get it first - get the bacon.'

Quotes by John Fairchild

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

Quotes by John Dyer

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

Quotes by John Eaton

Things were so unpredictable in Comey's first meeting with President-elect Trump, the former FBI director immediately took notes in his car after the interaction.

Quotes by John Dickerson

When I was first asked to be on 'Washington Week', I never prepared more for an appearance.

Quotes by John Dickerson

'Futurama' was a big deal. People had already started to hear about me a little bit here and there, but that was the first series I booked to be a regular on.

Quotes by John DiMaggio

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.

Quotes by John Deacon

This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears.

Quotes by John Culberson

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

Quotes by John Carmack

Writing is rewriting; rewriting is writing - from the first crossed-out word in the first sentence to the last word inserted above a caret, that most helpful handwritten stroke.

Quotes by John Casey

After the first 'Hedwig,' interestingly, I was offered to play Hamlet a couple of times.

Quotes by John Cameron Mitchell

My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.

Quotes by John Burnside

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Quotes by John C. Crosby

I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.

Quotes by John Boyne

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

Quotes by John Bright

Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.

Quotes by John Boehner

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

Quotes by John Boyega

We should be the first to help disadvantaged people. What would happen if other countries decided to follow our example?

Quotes by John Barnes

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

Quotes by John Barrowman

When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions it now encompasses.

Quotes by John Battelle

The first car the family owned was a Model A.

Quotes by John B. Goodenough

After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault.

Quotes by John B. Hood

Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.

Quotes by John Agar

I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.

Quotes by John Amery

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

Quotes by Johann Heinrich Lambert

The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.

Quotes by Johann Heinrich Lambert

Brass bands are part of my upbringing. Brass band records were among the first records I listened to.

Quotes by Johann Johannsson

I am a trombone player, and that was my first instrument.

Quotes by Johann Johannsson

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

Quotes by Johanna Lindsey

In many ways, shooting my first feature was more difficult than I had thought it would be, but it was still the most rewarding experience I have ever had.

Quotes by Johan Renck

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

Quotes by Joely Richardson

I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice.

Quotes by Joey Dunlop

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.

Quotes by Joel McCrea

Having so many close calls in my career, it was such an awesome feeling to get that first world title.

Quotes by Joel Parkinson

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.

Quotes by Joel Salatin

I started in the psychological thriller side of feature filmmaking with 'Spiral,' which was the first one that I wrote and directed and played the lead in.

Quotes by Joel David Moore

When I sat down with Under Armour, one of the first things we talked about was how this can be bigger than just shoes, bigger than just basketball.

Quotes by Joel Embiid

The first twenty shows at TV 23 were really a workshop.

Quotes by Joel Hodgson

I think I've seen the first 'RoboCop' like 15 or 20 times. I'm like a kid that way.

Quotes by Joel Kinnaman

This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died.

Quotes by Joe Theismann

When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.'

Quotes by Joel A. Barker

I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.

Quotes by Joe R. Lansdale

I sold my first story when I was 21 in 1973.

Quotes by Joe R. Lansdale

I've been collecting comics since I was 10 years old. One of the first books I ever got my hands on was a Captain America-Falcon team-up.

Quotes by Joe Russo

I found that I was just hopeless at school. It was just a total bore. First, I passed in art and English, and then just art. Then I passed out.

Quotes by Joe Strummer

I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.

Quotes by Joe Morgan

Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the 'Normal' environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.

Quotes by Joe Murray

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.

Quotes by Joe Murray

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

Quotes by Joe Namath

Acting was my first love.

Quotes by Joe Manganiello

The first CD that I ever bought was 'Britney Spears.' It was at a 7-Eleven and I was like, 'Can I get this?' It was literally her EP and I picked it up and, of course, I fell in love with her. It was an early crush for me.

Quotes by Joe Jonas

First and foremost, energy efficiency is a major lever for reducing CO2 emissions along all parts of the energy chain - from the production of resources all the way to final consumption.

Quotes by Joe Kaeser

Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.

Quotes by Joe Gold

I was one of the first people to join Facebook in February of 2004, and launched one of the inaugural applications on the platform in May 2007.

Quotes by Joe Green

Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.

Quotes by Joe Greene

My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to the AFC when the leagues merged. I went to the Pro Bowl that season, and there must have been nine Raiders and nine Chiefs. I got to know all those guys.

Quotes by Joe Greene

The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.

Quotes by Joe Heck

The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.

Quotes by Joe Henderson

Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.

Quotes by Joe Henderson

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

Quotes by Joe Elliott

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

Quotes by Jodie Foster

Of all the life skills I could have learned - First aid? Nah. But I can pour a pint.

Quotes by Jodie Whittaker

'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.

Quotes by Joe Abercrombie

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

Quotes by Joanna Scott

The first is last, and the last is first.

Quotes by Joanna Southcott

It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.

Quotes by JoBeth Williams

I started in journalism: my first magazine, I developed when I was 10. I sent it round to the neighbors. I also sent it to the Queen of England.

Quotes by Joanna Coles

My first flight was in my early 20s, from New York City to Los Angeles, to shoot a Cherry 7-UP commercial.

Quotes by Joanna Going

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

Quotes by Joan Collins

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

Quotes by Joan Collins

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.

Quotes by Joan Halifax

One of the things I love most about Lib Dem members is that for all our policy disagreements, we agree on why we're Lib Dems in the first place.

Quotes by Jo Swinson

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

Quotes by Joan Baez

Narendra Modi is a bubble. After elevation in his party, his first test was the Karnataka election. He failed miserably in that.

Quotes by Jitin Prasada

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

Quotes by Jo Cox

Comedy is not the first choice in Vegas for entertainment.

Quotes by Jo Koy

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

Quotes by Jimmy Piersall

I did my first recording. It was called The Champ.

Quotes by Jimmy Smith

So many people have to struggle for years, very few bands get success with their first record, but I was instantly successful and famous on a very large scale, which was scary.

Quotes by Jimmy Somerville

The first record I ever danced to in a grown-up disco was Donna Summer's 'A Love Trilogy'. I danced for the full 15 minutes and I thought to myself, 'This is it, this is what it's all about.'

Quotes by Jimmy Somerville

I wouldn't ever classify myself as a singer. I see myself as a songwriter first.

Quotes by Jimmy Napes

First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

Quotes by Jimmy Carl Black

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

Quotes by Jimmy Carl Black

The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you're just finding your feet.

Quotes by Jimmy Carr

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

Quotes by Jimmy Carr

The first thing I wanted to be was an actor, even before I wanted to be a singer, before I discovered I could sing.

Quotes by Jimmy Cliff

I have a career, which is important, but my family is the priority. First family, and then career. It's a delicate balance.

Quotes by Jimmy Cliff

I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I wasn't going to make it.

Quotes by Jimmy Graham

The first four years of my career, I never complained. I never demanded. I never said anything about money.

Quotes by Jimmy Graham

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