My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.
My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.
My first playpen was a cardboard box.
Our philosophy is that we care about people first.
My first year with Gothenburg was the most carefree because I was playing on a middle-of-the-table team in Sweden. It was a lot less of the global attention.
Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be.
It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.
What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested in are the writers who are most unlike me: for example, Denis Johnson.
On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop.
At 8, I got my first cassette, which was Def Leppard's 'Hysteria.'
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
My first encounter with Wu-Tang Clan came when I ordered six CDs from those throwback catalog orders, from Columbia House or something, and '36 Chambers' was one of them. It was on from then.
The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.
