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I love Tokyo, I've been several times. The first trip was just weird; it was a weird time. It was in the '90s, and it was different then.
I was a little punk rocker and was pregnant with Sarah when I went to university. I had her in the Christmas holidays of the first term. It was 1979, and UCL was very proud of its reputation as a liberal university, so they were very helpful.
I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.
But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.
For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story.
The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house.
I have to remember I am a defender first and do my job there first and foremost.
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'
While Shakespeare wasn't the first voice in the room, in North America and Europe, he's one of the loudest voices.
When we first filmed 'Gilmore Girls,' I didn't know it would build such a cult following.
I did have a problem concentrating on anything for more than 10 seconds. I was one of the first kids in the U.K. to go on Ritalin, and my mum hated it, and I hated it.
Nickelodeon fans are my first fans, so I have much love and adoration for them.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started.
When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools for theater. I was like, 'I'm obviously not cut out for this, so I might as well just go into film.'
A thousand games for one organization, it's pretty cool, and I'm going to be the first guy to do it in Washington.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.
I met my first boyfriend when we were 13, playing 'Dungeons and Dragons' in the basement of my local comics shop. We were from the same small town in Maine but went to different schools.
I had first come to Berlin in 1990, on a search for someplace to live besides the United States.
Acadia was founded in 1916 by Woodrow Wilson as the first Eastern national park, aided by rich men, often with middle initials, the 'rusticators,' as they were known then, the first of our wealthy out-of-state visitors.
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.
I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account.
I spent the first seven years of my life in a caravan traveling around Europe and the United States because my parents were just obsessed with traveling.
It's fun to come in when it's first down. It's not fun to come back in when it's third-and-long.
The first draft of 'Ex Machina' is extremely different than the finished film. That would be like 10% of the original draft stayed into the shooting script.
Gravity Falls' is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.
We're going to merge with machines and become gods, but first, we've got to reduce the world population 90 percent.
My idea for Gucci was crazy, but that's the only idea I had. I was sure I'd be fired after the first show.
At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to have much in common with Michael R. Milken, one-time king of junk bonds.
I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.
We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists. While during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn't.
I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me.
My first six months were in Japan; then I went to Mexico and then went back to Japan. I had the opportunity to wrestle all the wrestlers from the United States, Europe, and Japan when I was there.
I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.
The delight you feel in that split second you score your first hundred is so intense it can't be repeated.
The atmosphere and the first days of Test matches against Australia are incredible.
If the Chinese are the first to the asteroids or the first to Mars, good for them, as far as I'm concerned.
When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
I started on television. I had five years of network television before I ever got up on a stage. The first thing I ever did was in 1967. This guy Bill Keene had a little talk show at noon, and Gary Owens took over for a week. He knew about this dummy bit I used to do, this ventriloquist thing, and I was on 'Keene at Noon.'
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.
The first mission to Mars did not expect to find craters and river valleys, and yet they did. The first mission to Jupiter didn't expect to find ocean worlds and volcano worlds, but they did.
If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.
Most of my collaborations, certainly post - Howard Ashman but even with Howard, are music first.
My first success was 'Little Shop of Horrors,' and I had been working for years on jingles.
When 'Newsies' first came out, it just crash-landed with a thud; it won a Razzie for worst song of the year, and I felt such embarrassment. Fast-forward, and it's a hit on Broadway, and I win a Tony for the score!
When Peter Schneider first approached me about adapting 'Sister Act' for the stage, it wasn't a slam dunk to say yes.
Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.
I was very early on in taking venture capital abroad: to Europe first, then Asia.
I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.
Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.
Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.
I didn't want to become a chocolatier among others, buying ready-to-use couverture. I wanted to take the same approach I follow in my cuisine: putting the product first, revealing the authentic taste of the products.
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.
I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
Anyone who was tempted to draw comparisons between my father's 'Dave Robicheaux' series and my first book quickly gave up.
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