Firsts Quotes - Page 295

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

I used to tell moms that for the sake of their well-being they had to put themselves first. But I know now that's not always possible.

Obviously, this is our first album [Begin], so this is our first big body of work that's out there in the world and it really represents our journey, from where we started to now and all the music we created, our range, and all the things that we definitely shared, but weren't able to show our range on a full-scale until this album.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

It wasn't the first time. This happened to Dennis Kucinich. It happened to Jesse Jackson. They did it even to Howard Dean, creating the Dean scream. This is how they [democrats] work.

When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.

My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my first record and you had Michael Jackson, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell and Diana Ross on it. I even took it to show and tell in third grade!

Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.

You see history in the making and that is definitely the highlight. You get to meet these amazing sportsmen and women, and see them develop as individuals. You get to meet them when they're first coming into their sport. You watch them develop and you build up relationships with them.

When I was 15, I got a job at the first Hollister that opened up.

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was surreal to see them in person.

Your house is your first small business. It's where your investment is and [where] our greatest asset is.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

Much of my work has been done in first person.

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

It's the premium time, the fourth quarter. October, November, December and now, if you will, going over into the first quarter in January. But really, football, that's when the interest is in the game.

Jesus was the First American.

Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

If my team isn't motivated, it's my fault. I can't consider myself the best of the best until my team is able to get out of the first round.