We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.
When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.
I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set.
It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine.
The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
First and foremost, I'm a real estate person. And that's what I love the most.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Grub first, then ethics.
But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA.
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.
When it comes to our everyday habits, it's important to ask: 'Am I putting God first?'
We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.
I got my first job by exceeding expectations.
Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first peaceful transfer of executive power between parties in the fourth presidential election in 1801, and it took another 200 years' worth of presidential elections before the courts had to settle an election.
I was an artist, I was executive producer on my first album, so I've always had to manage both. I couldn't get a record deal. It wasn't by choice - I couldn't get a record deal, so I had to figure it out.
The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition.
