It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done.
When we first played Max's, people thought Cindy and I were drag queens - we wore these gigantic wigs that sort of his our faces.
Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.
The First Amendment is first for a reason - it cannot be ignored by the D.C. City Council.
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
Personally, when a controversy erupts, we decide first whether it requires clarification and, secondly, if it receives notice from authorities and the establishment, we submit responses to their queries.
Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!
Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.
I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.
I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.
When I was 17, I went to Brigham Young University. That was the first time I had set foot in a classroom.
I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.
My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.
No yogic practice is performed without cleansing the body first.
