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The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

Quotes by Charles Evans Hughes

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Charles Bukowski

As an issue, climate change was unlucky: when nonspecialists first became aware of it in the 1990s, environmental attitudes had already become tribal political markers.

Quotes by Charles C. Mann

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Quotes by Charles Colson

The first session of the Congress of the United States under the Constitution was devoted principally to the problems of immediate revenues and administrative and judicial organization.

Quotes by Charles A. Beard

So many deaths could be prevented if measures were implemented to expand background checks and keep individuals like John Hinckley from ever buying firearms in the first place.

Quotes by Charles B. Rangel

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

Quotes by Charles Bass

To get DonorsChoose.org to scale, we first need to increase the viral appeal of our website.

Quotes by Charles Best

I first learned of the value of employee stock ownership plans while representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, home of employee-owned Acadian Ambulance.

Quotes by Charles Boustany

My first show was 'The King and I' when I was five.

Quotes by Chandra Wilson

I don't get facials. The last time I got a facial was when I first started modeling when I was 15 or 16. It made my face completely break out.

Quotes by Chanel Iman

When I first started rapping, I was like, 'I'm gonna be, like, the female Eminem.'

Quotes by Chanel West Coast

I don't like to listen to my older albums. They frighten me. I can't explain it. It's so subjective. It's so personal. I cannot listen to my first album, ever. Never, never, never.

Quotes by Chantal Kreviazuk

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

Quotes by Charisma Carpenter

One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, 'Don't judge the character.'

Quotes by Chadwick Boseman

My first job was at a Burger King.

Quotes by Chamath Palihapitiya

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Quotes by Chanakya

ICICI Bank was the first bank to recalibrate its ATMs for 2000 and then also for 500 rupee notes, and now we have some ATMs which give out 2000, 500, 100 - all of them.

Quotes by Chanda Kochhar

In order to get to where I want to be, I have to do the right things off the field, first.

Quotes by Chad Kelly

I had my two front teeth knocked out by a sixth grader in first grade.

Quotes by Chad Michael Murray

The first bookstore I loved wasn't a little independent gem nestled in a neighborhood: it was a modest Waldenbooks in our local shopping mall.

Quotes by Celeste Ng

When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.

Quotes by Celina Jade

The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.

Quotes by Celine Dion

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

Quotes by Cecil Rhodes

When I came out of the conservatory, the first thing I did was to go see Thelonious Monk.

Quotes by Cecil Taylor

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.

Quotes by Cecilia Bartoli

When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.

Quotes by Catherine Zeta-Jones

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

Quotes by Cathy Freeman

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

Quotes by Cathy Freeman

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

Quotes by Cathy Guisewite

I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives, well then, that is a bonus.

Quotes by Cecelia Ahern

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.

Quotes by Catherine Hardwicke

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

Quotes by Catherine Helen Spence

Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusual containers, but her arrangements tended to be a little less full.

Quotes by Catherine Martin

I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

Quotes by Catherine Mary Stewart

The biggest lesson I've learned throughout the first season of 'Workin' Moms' is that you have to give yourself permission to forgive yourself.

Quotes by Catherine Reitman

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Quotes by Catherine Tate

Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.

Quotes by Catherine Crier

When I started 'City of Bones,' I knew exactly what was going to happen in 'City of Glass.' When I first started the six-book series, I thought of it as a three-book series.

Quotes by Cassandra Clare

Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the U.S., but I didn't click with anyone.

Quotes by Cat Deeley

I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the first inning I felt fairly good.

Quotes by Cat Osterman

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.

Quotes by Cat Stevens

One song I do is 'The First Cut is the Deepest.' I try to remind people I wrote that song, not Rod Stewart.

Quotes by Cat Stevens

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

Quotes by Casey Affleck

My hockey comes first compared to everything else.

Quotes by Casey Eastham

The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

Quotes by Casey Kasem

We gave the show away and in return, we received a certain number of minutes per hour for the three-hour show that we could sell to Madison Avenue. One of the first sponsors was MGM Records.

Quotes by Casey Kasem

My first commercial was for Miller High Life beer.

Quotes by Casey Kasem

I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a dancing Indian.

Quotes by Casey Nicholaw

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

Quotes by Carter Burwell

My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were so interesting and that the world they were depicting was so titillating to me.

Quotes by Cary Fukunaga

Sundance took me on my first film and from there sort of launched my career.

Quotes by Cary Fukunaga

I'm going to play in the first team of Real Madrid.

Quotes by Casemiro

I consider myself a bassist first.

Quotes by Casey Abrams

I had my first seizure, and I had to go in for heart surgery.

Quotes by Carre Otis

During the first couple of years of 'Dancing with the Stars,' I would go to Jack in the Box in my ball gown after the shows and get the Taco Nachos with cheese as my reward.

Quotes by Carrie Ann Inaba

I am the first female chief executive of Hong Kong.

Quotes by Carrie Lam

I did a lot of multi-cam shows when I first started coming out to L.A.

Quotes by Carrie Preston

My very first magazine cover was the National Enquirer.

Quotes by Carrie Underwood

When I first had kids, I had a suitcase under my bed that I didn't even put away, and I was excited about going to all of these new places all of the time.

Quotes by Carrie-Anne Moss

As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.

Quotes by Carolyn Kizer

It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.

Quotes by Carolyn See

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

Quotes by Caroline Corr

In my first 100 days as Ontario's Minister of Transportation, I found a willing municipal partner in the City of Toronto that shares our goal of better, faster transit.

Quotes by Caroline Mulroney

My first concert was Third Eye Blind.

Quotes by Caroline Polachek

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

Quotes by Carol P. Christ

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.

Quotes by Carol Vorderman

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

Quotes by Carol Vorderman

The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.

Quotes by Carole Bouquet

I'm a songwriter first.

Quotes by Carole King

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.

Quotes by Caroline B. Cooney

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

Quotes by Carmen Laforet

I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on - it was 'Bazaar' Magazine.

Quotes by Carol Alt

Because I was the first super-elite, the press caught on and started calling me a supermodel. So in that sense, I guess I'm the first. But, in my opinion, there were girls that could have been called supermodels before that, if the term was in existence.

Quotes by Carol Alt

I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great idea he had about the shadings of reality!

Quotes by Carol Berg

I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.

Quotes by Carol Burnett

I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.

Quotes by Carol Channing

I've wept for Haiti a thousand times over the years since my first trip during the Duvalier reign.

Quotes by Carol Guzy

My first movie was with Mike Nichols.

Quotes by Carol Kane

In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.

Quotes by Carlton Cuse

Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

Quotes by Carly Patterson

I waited for my first kiss.

Quotes by Carly Rae Jepsen

To get up to 'SmackDown Live' and have my first match on live TV, I was so nervous.

Quotes by Carmella

It's just surreal that I was the first Ms. Money in the Bank.

Quotes by Carmella

I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

Quotes by Carlos Pena, Jr.

When I first joined Manchester City, I was not 100 per cent fit.

Quotes by Carlos Tevez

I was, in my first season, second top scorer, which is something people forget.

Quotes by Carlos Tevez

Sure, it was difficult when I first came, but I am very happy to be here, in England.

Quotes by Carlos Tevez

The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

Quotes by Carlene Carter

The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.

Quotes by Carlene Carter

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

Carl Sandburg

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz

The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.

Quotes by Carine Roitfeld

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Quotes by Carl Clinton Van Doren

The notion that scientists are dispassionate - first of all, that's wrong. Scientists are extremely passionate.

Quotes by Carl Hart

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

Quotes by Carl Hiaasen

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Quotes by Carl Jung

When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.

Quotes by Canelo Alvarez

When I first started modeling, they used to bleach my eyebrows all the time.

Quotes by Cara Delevingne

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

Quotes by Cardinal Richelieu

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

Quotes by Cardinal Richelieu

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