From the first day we opened Wynkoop, my brewpub in Denver, I knew I'd be ten times better running a restaurant than I was a geologist.
America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.
I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account.
I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief.
When I was first named as Deputy Prime Minister, there was a feeling of shock that I should be chosen because I was labeled as being an ultra and very anti-Chinese.
So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.
An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country.
The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir.
I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
The letter K was the first one in the alphabet which had not, with more or less justification, been used to designate other vitamins, and it also happened to be the first letter in the word 'koagulation' according to the Scandinavian and German spelling.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.
Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.
At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'
My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.
