First Quotes

When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s.

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Replacing General McChrystal with David Petraeus was a good first step, but more will be needed.

We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots.