Firsts Quotes - Page 208

Everyone has ideas. The first step is to learn more about your industry than anyone in the world. Otherwise there is a good chance that the lady that knows it better than you is going to kick your ass. Then you just have to go for it. No excuses. Just work your ass off.

My thoughts are like waffles - the first few don't look so good.

I made music on Seven the same way as on the other albums. I only used acoustic instruments... I'm looking for instruments that have vocal sounds, forgotten instruments like the guimbri... The first and second albums were about the voice, what came before. This album is about introducing those sounds into modern, Western life.

Just for once, I want someone to want me more than anybody else. To put me first.

Victims should come first.

[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

I was always the first one to break. I'll admit it. I couldn't keep a straight face.

We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

Sometimes it seems to me I've known so many men that the FBI ought to come to me first to compare fingerprints.

If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

First we become the best, then we'll become first.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

I was one of the first print models to go on the runway because I wanted to do runway. When I started doing the shows, I was the only print girl there.

The first and often only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness... When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.

When you do the first season, you're putting your life out there and you're kind of hesitant about it, and then by the time you get around to the second season, you don't care. It's like, "This is who I am - like it, accept it, or don't." There are so many misconceptions that now they can see who I am.

For the first time I feel really free.

The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often I'm surprised at what an audience will or will not laugh at. I have to stay very, very open to an audiences first exposure to that material and how they react to it.