With the rabbit as our emblem, when we got to the point in 1960 of opening the first Playboy Club... one of our executives suggested the possibility of a bunny costume. We tried it out, and I made some modifications - added the cuffs and the bow tie and collar - and the bunny was born.
The one period of glory in NASA was the first nine years when they weren't a bureaucracy yet... and they haven't gotten back to that excitement, that adventurism, and won't. So, I would take most of the NASA budget, and I would turn it into prizes for private sector.
The first year I lived in New York, I tried a different burger every week to find my favorite burger in New York.
My first job was at a Burger King.
If I heard a noise at night, I'd think there was a burglar sneaking around; the first thing I'd do was check on my guitar.
Authors don't tend to stay with the same agents and editors over their entire lifetimes, but Grafton worked with Marian Wood, her editor at Putnam, from Kinsey's first outing, and signed with Molly Friedrich, still her literary agent, with the publication of 'B Is for Burglar.'
I founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence.
I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.
In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.
It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.
First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
I was the first female cab driver in the city of Pittsburgh.
I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.
EPIX is a big new cable TV channel that I've just started hosting for. I host EPIX News covering the major movie premieres and junkets. 'The Hunger Games' was my first project with them.
From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
