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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
The first dance we did for 'Ain’t Misbehavin’ was five minutes and I was like, ‘What? Five minutes!'
Although I won many titles on the competition circuit, my first professional audition was in 2015 for the popular German version of 'Strictly Come Dancing', called 'Let’s Dance'.
I represent the interests of almost 90,000 human beings in our system. That's by far my first and foremost commitment.
As board members, we only meet infrequently and are not as engaged with the front line, necessarily. The first thing I did as CEO was I left this board room.
United spent $1.2 billion repurchasing shares in 2015 and plans to spend $1.5 billion on share repurchases in the first quarter of 2016. We have a lot of positive momentum, but this is just the beginning.
The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.
When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Generally my response to seeing something really symmetrical and perfect is... it's the scene with Jack Nicholson's Joker in the first 'Batman,' the museum scene. Him just spray-painting the Mona Lisa, and whatever, with his goons.
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.
When I saw Santana for the first time, I was really inspired. Same with Stevie Ray Vaughn.
I'd like to believe that 'The Apprentice' was a big hit because I was such a superstar in the first season.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.
For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
The first introduction I had with English football was in the FA Cup in the early '80s.
Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
I got my Actors' Equity card officially by playing Nana the dog in 'Peter Pan' at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. That was the first show I did as a full-fledged, dues-paying member; I earned points in my MFA program, then went into the company after I graduated.
And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers.
I believe in fate. I didn't set out to be a comedian at first. I'm still not sure if I am or not.
I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success.
The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!
A lot of my favorite artists didn't sell much out the gate. I didn't with Common at first. Neither did first albums from Outkast, Nas, or Jay Z. It doesn't scare me.
Any show in its first season goes through multiple changes. There is little or no difference to changing the cast on a talk show.
When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it.
I think when I started my first album, I was 17 or 18, so I guess I was basically a child.
The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
I was 15 or 16 when I first saw 'Once Upon A Time In America,' so I was quite young, but I was completely blown away.
Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing.
If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Some kid gets his first iPhone, signs up to Twitter, and then tweets, 'Nikki Sixx sucks.' And I'm supposed to take that personally.
The first beauty product most Dutchies get is Max Factor mascara. But a lot of people here still only buy mascara and a little lip gloss.
The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists and all other types of extremists to do what they are going to do. I understand that, and I'm not opposed to that.
There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
The first thing I do when I go to people's houses is look at their television, turn it on.
I had a rough start when I moved to L.A. I couldn't find a job, so I couch-surfed for the first two years.
My first website went up in 1995. On it I ran a feature called Ask Nicola. Readers would email me questions, I'd answer whichever took my fancy.
I've seen a few lookalikes, and that kind of freaks me out, but then I'm not the first person on the planet to have tattoos, and I'm not the first person to have hair or a tattoo sleeve.
I first write melodies that will make people shiver, and then, I add the lyrics.
I've met secular humanists who grew up in evangelical households, for whom 'Cosmos' was their first exposure to a scientific way of viewing the world.
On first acquaintance, the mystery of the Mayans of Guatemala can seem simply bizarre, as it was when I first encountered Maximon the god.
I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.
The idea of acting on the first 'Halloween', it didn't really apply to my eventual work, working with actors.
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.
When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.
I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.
The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.
My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, 'The Fighting Temptations,' and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I've taken acting classes.
I'm coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called 'The Nethia.' How we came up with the name is that my legal name is Linnethia and we shortened it.
It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows.
Broad City's first season is full of moments that are insane... and yet make total sense.
I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in.
There is not much we can say with absolute confidence about the early church, but we can be fairly sure that the first Christians would not have dreamed of making a likeness of Jesus.
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
I am very interested in theology. In fact, my first degree was in theology, so it's something that interests me greatly.
The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.
I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
When I became chief minister of Punjab in 1985, I got Murree Road carpeted for the first time.
At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've had a chance to become human-adapted, certainly before they've had a chance to spread - we can head off pandemics altogether.
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
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