First-Rate Quotes

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland
Wisdom Yourself Somebody Second-Rate Else Instead Always First-Rate Version
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. A. A. Milne
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First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. Leo Rosten
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive. B. C. Forbes
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What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. Doris Lessing
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Good Man Science Patient Sense Worse Furniture Plenty More He Piece First-Rate Got His Upper Common Common Sense Chamber
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. Andre Weil
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We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people. Azim Premji
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American workers are first rate. Christopher Dodd
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Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough. Dominick Dunne
Me Tough Enough Would Never Knew Within First-Rate Producer
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. Evelyn Waugh
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My family is blue-collar - coal miners and steelworkers. My father was an automobile mechanic, and us boys were brought up to work. I used to pump gasoline at 11 cents a gallon. I thought I would like to be a first-rate mechanic; a respected, hard-working man. F. Murray Abraham
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A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances. Franz Liszt
Theatre Recognition Indispensable Through Performance First-Rate Which Initiative Receives
Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others. Gardner Dozois
Others Finding Thrill Share First-Rate Still Years Want After Story Really Even
But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate. Gerald Finzi
Work Mind First Second-Rate Rate No Work First-Rate Really Ever Second
I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don't print them in 'The New York Times.' Gore Vidal
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. That's what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience. Jon Lovett
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When I was director of public prosecutions, from 2008 to 2013, I had a first-rate counter-terrorism team, who worked closely with the police and the security and intelligence services to defeat and disrupt terrorism. Keir Starmer
Terrorism Director Intelligence Police Defeat Security Had First-Rate Closely Public Worked Team Who Services Disrupt
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. Maurice Ravel
You Lose Second-Rate Composing Rate Ravel Instead Spontaneity First-Rate End Up Gershwin Might Your Second
Every good war film, if you want to use that phrase - I don't think it's a good phrase, but if you want to use that phrase - every good film, a first-rate film about war, is an anti-war movie. Michael Cimino
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I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship. Michael Smith
Education Financial Chemistry Latin Honours Enter Financial Support Able Scholarship Support First-Rate Cambridge Go However Were Did Committee Manchester Graduated Oxford Where Professors Proficient Program University
One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz. Nicholas Kristof
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More than anything else, a budget request is a statement of national priorities; a clear enumeration of what our country needs to grow its economy and remain in the future the first-rate power it is today. Roy Blunt
Today Future Needs Power Country National Else Our Statement More More Than Anything Remain Clear Budget Economy First-Rate Priorities Than Anything Anything Else Request Grow
As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there. Scott Weiland
Some Horrible Guys First-Rate Were Jail
I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you. Wes Anderson
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