The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back.
With the block chain, for the first time, we no longer need these central institutions for settlement or for guaranteeing the value of coins or for land titling. All of these functions can be replaced by a transparent public ledger that is safe from tampering and which can make value and ownership clear and open for everyone.
I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.
These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.
That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!
The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.
The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.
The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.
The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.
When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in, and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.
I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'
I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.
When I saw 'Jurassic Park' as a kid, that was the first time I thought about making movies for a living.
I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.
The first time I read 'Leftovers,' I didn't get it at all.
The first time I saw Lena Dunham was in 'Tiny Furniture.'
From the first time I played with Lester Flatt, I sensed an extreme amount of history around me.
'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.
Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.