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Today's Anniversary - 23rd May

Births

• 1951 - Anatoly Karpov
• 1938 - Johnny Ball
• 1928 - Rosemary Clooney
• 1967 - Charlie Hunter
• 1910 - Artie Shaw

Deaths

• 1906 - Henrik Ibsen
• 1995 - Owen Hart
• 1934 - Bonnie Elizabeth Parker
• 1701 - William Kidd
• 2008 - Alan Brien

• In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in God, Humor

  Tags in Idiots, Then, Practice, School, First, Place, Made, Board

• We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half.

  David Pleat

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in First
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  The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

  Gloria Steinem

  Topics in Life, Truth

  Tags in First
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  The first draft of anything is shit.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in First, Shit, Writing
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  The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

  Ben Stein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in First, Step, Indispensable

• The first album I ever owned was ‘A Star is Born.’

  Idina Menzel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Owned, First

• The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

  Brian Harold May

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in First, Never

• Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn’t have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

  Brett Favre

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in After, First

• He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

  Bram Stoker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enter, First

• When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it’s very exciting.

  Bobby Darin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in First, Sing

• It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.

  Frederick Sanger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Research, First

• I didn’t have a lot to do with the first record.

  Bo Bice

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in First, Lot

• Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.

  Fred Shero

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Result, First

• First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basic, First

• The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

  Fred Allen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thing, First

• When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.

  Billy Joel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, First

• One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

  Franz Kafka

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understanding, First

• If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

  Bill Shankly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in First

• Jazz was my first love.

  Frankie Valli

  Topics in Love

  Tags in First
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  The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

  Chauncey Depew

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting, First, Decide