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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
When I first started pursuing acting professionally out of college, it was very much in my head that there would be comparisons with potentially both of my parents, and I found that pretty intimidating.
The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.
I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.
When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.
When I came to America, I had some surprises at first, but I could soon adjust.
I'm a basketball player first and foremost. So I want to put basketball above everything else.
As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.
I wrote my first play when I was eight. It was about a queen, and I - of course! - was the queen.
I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.
I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.
How can I shave in the midst of guerrilla warfare? On battlefields, we have no facilities for shaving, and that was why I first grew my beard.
Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
I'm incredibly proud to be the first trans director to be nominated for an Oscar.
The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
Politicians around the world are very different, but they all have one thing in common: The first thing they respond to is public opinion.
I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance.
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
On our first date, all Anne wanted to talk about was Bob Feller, the new pitcher for the Cleveland Indians.
America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.
Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.
I'm a little embarrassed to talk about it now, but the very first sport that I did, if you can call it sport, was ballroom dancing. I was aged seven to nine or 10.
During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
I'm aware that I'm playing one of the first LGBT characters on 'Star Trek' in the first relationship, so there's a responsibility that comes with that. I'm aware of that.
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.
The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first place, as I was. We were both quoted to that effect in February of 2003.
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
Government leaders should get up to speed on the blockchain by understanding it first and committing to exploring its potential.
For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera.
The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.
I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.
Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating.
The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march.
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
A tax cut would most certainly be my first choice rather than an increase in federal spending. Those who advocate that fail to see that spending not only continues in subsequent years, but it grows and grows.
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
I was still a recruit in the Boston Police Academy when I attended my first police funeral. It was September 28, 1970. I remember it still.
It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.
The first Black Migration to this country was forced migration. It was the Middle Passage.
Every Medal of Valor recipient has confronted life-threatening danger. Each had their fight-or-flight moment. But each one stood their ground for our safety. We hold them up as examples to other first responders - and to all Americans.
Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.
Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics.
We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.
In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.
I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.
Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.
Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.
We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.
This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare it can fetch several thousand pounds at auction. I always wanted to be an author, and I decided to write about what I knew.
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.
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