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When I first started, all the reviews of Cold Chisel would say, 'This singer won't have a voice in six months.'

Quotes by Jimmy Barnes

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

Quotes by Jimmy Breslin

In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.

Quotes by Jim Sensenbrenner

Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

Quotes by Jim Sensenbrenner

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.

Quotes by Jim Walton

I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.

Quotes by Jim Webb

When I first did 'Best in Show,' I had never done any improvisation.

Quotes by Jim Piddock

First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

Quotes by Jim Ramstad

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

Quotes by Jim Ramstad

'West To A Land Of Plenty' shows a family heading west, first on board a train, and then going into areas as yet untamed by rail by way of an ox-drawn wagon.

Quotes by Jim Murphy

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

Quotes by Jim Lynch

When I launched my first campaign in 1999, I knew that the arc of my public service would have many chapters.

Quotes by Jim Matheson

In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.

Quotes by Jim McGovern

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

Quotes by Jim Hodges

My philosophy on quarterbacks is, first and foremost, you've got to keep them healthy and on the field.

Quotes by Jim Irsay

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

Quotes by Jim Harrison

By the time 'Dumbo's Circus' wrapped production of its 120 episodes, I had an agent, and I had scored my first feature film gig.

Quotes by Jim Cummings

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.

Quotes by Jim DeMint

Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.

Quotes by Jim DeMint

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.

Quotes by Jim Carrey

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

Quotes by Jim Coleman

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

Quotes by Jim Cooper

It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.

Quotes by Jim Cooper

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

Quotes by Jim Bakker

I first came to the Garden when I was a sophomore in college. The old, old Garden.

Quotes by Jim Boeheim

I've been a fan of Bunji's freestyling since the first time I saw him perform, back in the early 2000s.

Quotes by Jillionaire

The president is supposed to stand up for the First Amendment and stand up for the free press - not put us through the meat grinder.

Quotes by Jim Acosta

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Quotes by Jim Backus

I really absolutely loved writing my first book.

Quotes by Jill Davis

My first album was very eclectic and very soft as a vocal expression.

Quotes by Jihae

Spanish is my first language.

Quotes by Jessie Reyez

The first time I went crowd surfing was heaven.

Quotes by Jessie Reyez

Amy Winehouse affected my life tremendously. I think maybe she was the first sense of intimacy that I had with a complete stranger, musically speaking.

Quotes by Jessie Reyez

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Quotes by Jesus Christ

In my first year, I won the Premier League, and two cups after that, so I learned a lot from my experience in England, and I think it was all positive.

Quotes by Jesus Navas

When I was 15, I got a job at the first Hollister that opened up.

Quotes by Jessica Stroup

I'm just a huge fan of smells, first of all. I have a bit of an obsession with smells.

Quotes by Jessica Stroup

Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.

Quotes by Jessica Szohr

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

Quotes by Jessica White

My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.

Quotes by Jessie Mueller

Our first record as the Veronicas was a big mainstream success. Maybe if we'd had the indie record first, then the breakout record, it would have been supported by Triple J.

Quotes by Jessica Origliasso

In Australia, our first album went four-times platinum. It was massive.

Quotes by Jessica Origliasso

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

Quotes by Jessica Raine

I remember the first scary movie I ever watched was 'Scream,' and I watched it at a sleepover.

Quotes by Jessica Rothe

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

Quotes by Jessica Savitch

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

Quotes by Jessica Savitch

The first thing I do when I get home is take my shoes off and go barefoot.

Quotes by Jessica Mauboy

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

Quotes by Jessica Biel

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

Quotes by Jessica Chastain

I'm the first person in my family to go to college.

Quotes by Jessica Chastain

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

Quotes by Jessica Chastain

'Sara' was the first film project I worked on as an actress; it's a short film.

Quotes by Jessica Clark

I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.

Quotes by Jessica Ennis-Hill

At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was surreal to see them in person.

Quotes by Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

Quotes by Jessica Alba

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a good flier.

Quotes by Jesse Itzler

Playing a cop on TV and working closely with actual cops on set, I do think the media does a disservice to our first responders.

Quotes by Jesse Lee Soffer

I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.

Quotes by Jerry Yang

I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.

Quotes by Jesmyn Ward

My skin was really bad. Roxanne Rizzo's products were the first things that really cleared it up.

Quotes by Jess Glynne

My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.

Quotes by Jess Walter

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

Quotes by Jerry Spinelli

When I was growing up, the first thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. That lasted till I was about ten. Then I wanted to be a baseball player. Preferably shortstop for the New York Yankees.

Quotes by Jerry Spinelli

We've got to be Americans first. We've got to pull together and unite.

Quotes by Jerry Falwell, Jr.

My first airplane trip was to Paris. I had this fantasy that I would become a model, and I did!

Quotes by Jerry Hall

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

Quotes by Jerry B. Jenkins

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

Quotes by Jerry B. Jenkins

The First Amendment is not without limits.

Quotes by Jerry Falwell

When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly.

Quotes by Jeremy Stoppelman

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.

Quotes by Jeremy Lin

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.

Quotes by Jeremy Rifkin

Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this.

Quotes by Jeremy Rifkin

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

Quotes by Jeremy Rifkin

I was Hillary in '08. I love Obama, but I was Hillary first, so I was happy to be back there with her again.

Quotes by Jeremy Scott

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

Quotes by Jeremy Irvine

Chris Boardman was my first teammate and my first roommate. I saw him finish his career with an hour record and thought, 'Yeh, what a way to go out!'

Quotes by Jens Voigt

When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

Quotes by Jenny Zhang

If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to the U.S. based on my speaking skills, it would be very low.

Quotes by Jenny Zhang

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.

Quotes by Jennifer Saunders

Aretha Franklin, first and foremost... That's my top girl there.

Quotes by Jennifer Holliday

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

Quotes by Jennifer Lee

When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.

Quotes by Jennifer Chiaverini

I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led to another as I discovered other facets to my characters I wanted to investigate further.

Quotes by Jennifer Chiaverini

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

Quotes by Jennifer Ellison

The first ghost story I ever heard was from my mother.

Quotes by Jenna Wortham

'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.

Quotes by Jennifer Armentrout

My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.

Quotes by Jenna Bush

The first thing that comes out of my mouth is always right.

Quotes by Jenna Jameson

The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.

Quotes by Jeffrey Zeldman

The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.

Quotes by Jeffrey Zeldman

I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.

Quotes by Jen Lancaster

I was a musician first before anything.

Quotes by Jencarlos Canela

I always wanted to be a singer first.

Quotes by Jeffrey Osborne

My first job was with The O'Jays playing drums.

Quotes by Jeffrey Osborne

When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn't globalize.

Quotes by Jeffrey R. Immelt

I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.

Quotes by Jeffrey Thomas

Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake.

Quotes by Jeffrey Dean Morgan

It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.

Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides

I was the first one to have high-speed Internet before all my friends.

Quotes by Jeffree Star

The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.

Quotes by Jeff Lynne

I got my first computer at, I don't know, when I was 11 years old? 10?

Quotes by Jeff Moss

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