They put me in solitary confinement, and although I went on to do 8,755 days of solitary in total, the first two were the hardest. I almost went mad, beating my head against the wall.
In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of the 21 century confirmed that it was a particularly significant and timely step.
School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.
Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
I came to one of the first Comic Cons in 1985, when it was just people trading back issues of comic books.
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovich's compositions and Prokofiev's were no longer to be played.
Upon graduating from my acting program at The Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA, I went to my first tap audition. It was for the 1st national equity tour of '42nd Street.'
I'm a very considerate spender. I'm a shopper, and I do spend money, but I think about it first.
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.
When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.
The contention is if you don't do it in the first quarter, if you don't box out and control the glass in the first quarter, you are not going to do it in the fourth quarter and overtime.
