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SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there.

Quotes by Greg Ginn

We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.

Quotes by Greg Ginn

The first mention of a 'ranger' is as early as 1622, during the 1622 Powhatan rebellion, a near-successful effort to drive the British out of what is now Virginia.

Quotes by Greg Grandin

There are films that cost a lot of money that might be decent films. But if they don't perform in that first weekend or two, they're gone.

Quotes by Grant Heslov

I was keenly aware when I was drafted, when I signed my first contract; immediately, I was thinking about the end.

Quotes by Grant Hill

I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.

Quotes by Grant Morrison

I remember the very first suit I bought. It was a three-piece denim suit with bell-bottoms.

Quotes by Grant Show

First be best, then be first.

Quotes by Grant Tinker

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

Quotes by Gray Davis

I had first heard about Alan Turing when I was a teenager. I've known about him since I was a kid, and I always wanted to write about him.

Quotes by Graham Moore

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

Quotes by Graham Nelson

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

Quotes by Graham Parker

I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.

Quotes by Graham Russell

My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.

Quotes by Graham Yost

I first learned what a rivalry really was at White Hart Lane.

Quotes by Graeme Souness

The most nerves I've ever felt on the first tee was at the President's Cup.

Quotes by Graham DeLaet

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Quotes by Graham Joyce

I am an actress first, a singer second.

Quotes by Grace Jones

I've always wanted to write an early reader. When I wrote my first novel, my goal was to make it an early reader, but it grew beyond the category.

Quotes by Grace Lin

I was a general contractor when I was paying for my first record.

Quotes by Grace Potter

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

Quotes by Gore Vidal

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

Quotes by Gordon Parks

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.

Quotes by Gordon Strachan

I call ‘Mukkathe Penne' my first emotional hit because it's the kind of song that goes straight into the hearts of the audience.

Quotes by Gopi Sundar

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

Quotes by Gordon Bell

I got a heart tattooed on my foot. It's my first tattoo.

Quotes by Goldie Hawn

I've kept evolving the character. At first, you hated Goldust with a passion, then you laughed with him.

Quotes by Goldust

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

Quotes by Gloria Naylor

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Quotes by Gloria Steinem

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

Quotes by Gloria Swanson

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

Quotes by Gloria Swanson

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.

Quotes by Gloria Swanson

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

Quotes by Gloria Swanson

I've learned how to exist and get work done when you're exhausted. I've finally gotten to that level, because at first I had no idea how I was going to do it.

Quotes by GloZell

My wife is from Brighton so I got a bit of stick for going to Palace even though in my first three-and-a-half years at Brighton I didn't actually face them. So I don't think I completely understood the rivalry.

Quotes by Glenn Murray

As a teenager, I was in the Carlisle schoolboy scheme and while I was excited to join at first, I look back on it as a tough few years.

Quotes by Glenn Murray

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

Quotes by Gloria Estefan

No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

Quotes by Giraldus Cambrensis

Since Bobby Brown, I was the first one to be in my video taking my shirt off and showing the 6-pack and 8-pack. Other people weren't cut like that.

Quotes by Ginuwine

I've grown a lot since my first record came out - even since 'Back II da Basics' was released in 2005.

Quotes by Ginuwine

I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.

Quotes by Gio Gonzalez

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

Quotes by Gioachino Rossini

I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.

Quotes by Gina Rodriguez

Be first and be lonely.

Quotes by Ginni Rometty

Eradicating terrorist organizations and neutering radical Islam means very little if we cannot first guarantee we'll all be here tomorrow.

Quotes by Gillian Turner

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

Quotes by Gina Bellman

I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.

Quotes by Giles Duley

First of all there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff.

Quotes by Gil Kane

That's really how I ended up making the first flag - I was the guy who could sew it.

Quotes by Gilbert Baker

Once I was finally liberated from my Kansas background, the first thing I did was get a sewing machine, because it's 1972, and I have to look like Mick Jagger and David Bowie every single second. Taffeta jumpsuits.

Quotes by Gilbert Baker

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Quotes by Giambattista Vico

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

Quotes by Gianni Agnelli

I am honored to be the first international player featured on the cover of 'NBA 2K19.'

Quotes by Giannis Antetokounmpo

'The Wizard of Poetry' - I had that title since I did 'The Pretty Toney' album. That's when the name first came to me.

Quotes by Ghostface Killah

In all seriousness, I just think, 'Keep God first.'

Quotes by Ghostface Killah

When Slick Rick first hit the scene, I had to practice that British accent. There's no other storyteller like this man.

Quotes by Ghostface Killah

When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.

Quotes by Gerry Mulligan

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

Quotes by Gerry Mulligan

I left Barcelona because I believed it was very difficult to have minutes in the first team, as there are very good players.

Quotes by Gerard Deulofeu

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

Quotes by Gerald Vizenor

Naanabozho was the first tribal trickster on the earth.

Quotes by Gerald Vizenor

The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.

Quotes by Gerard Butler

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

Quotes by Gerald Finzi

Playing Joanne in 'London to Brighton' was my first taste of film, and I loved every second of it.

Quotes by Georgia Groome

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

Quotes by Georges Bataille

When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle.

Quotes by Georges Pompidou

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

Quotes by George Washington

The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.

Quotes by George Will

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

Quotes by George William Norris

We opened the first Men's Wearhouse in Houston in August 1973, then a store a year for 10 years in Texas. In the early 1980s I opened a store in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within the year, the Texas economy was in total disarray. We were facing Chapter 11, and if not for the California store, we might not have survived.

Quotes by George Zimmer

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

Quotes by George Takei

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.

Quotes by George Shearing

Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.

Quotes by George Shearing

In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note.

Quotes by George Shearing

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

Quotes by George Saintsbury

Back in 1992, I had my first story accepted by 'The New Yorker.'

Quotes by George Saunders

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

George Orwell

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

George Orwell

Our efforts to preserve and protect the Alamo are first and foremost about preserving and protecting the story of the battle itself.

Quotes by George P. Bush

I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene McCarthy supporter, so I guess he was the first senator I really knew about and cared about.

Quotes by George Packer

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.

Quotes by George Pataki

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

George R.R. Martin

The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.

Quotes by George Murray

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Quotes by George MacDonald

Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think.

Quotes by George Martin

Insight is the first condition of Art.

Quotes by George Henry Lewes

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

Quotes by George Gilder

First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.

Quotes by George Crook

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

Quotes by George Carlin

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

Quotes by George Catlin

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

Quotes by George Combe

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

Quotes by George Ayittey

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

Quotes by George Bancroft

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

Quotes by George Barr McCutcheon

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.

Quotes by George Bentham

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

Quotes by George Berkeley

'Empire of the Sun' is one of the films that I often think about. I think it had a profound effect on me when I first watched it as a teenager.

Quotes by George Blagden

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.

Quotes by George Brett

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

Quotes by Georg Simmel

'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.

Quotes by George A. Romero

First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer

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