Firsts Quotes - Page 261

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

Gingrich first backed the concept in 1993, "I am for people, individuals - exactly like automobile insurance - individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance.

I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform now is welfare.

The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.

When I first tried out some hash, smoked some then. And I'll do it again, if only I had some cash.

I love technology. I buy all of the stuff when they come out first.

I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform.

In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.

That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her.

For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.

Very often the music comes first.

When I first started, I worked with three chords in every bar, but I found that tied me down - I'm not a chord-change writer, I'm a songwriter.

One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal; they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

In 1942 Cachao wrote a tune for Arcao, 'Rareza de Melitn,' with a memorable catchy tumbao. In 1957 Arcao recorded a reworking of it under the name 'Chanchullo'; and in 1962 Tito Puente reworked that into 'Oye como va,' still with that same groove. In this form, audibly the same, it powered Carlos Santana's multiplatinum 1970 cover version, close to three decades after Cachao first played it.

Compose first, worry later.

I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.

The first problem, of course, is that we haven't learned to love ourselves. That's the first problem. We can only give to another what we have to give. And if we have no love over here, we can't give it over there.

The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.

Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.

...the first sign of civilization is always trash.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.