First Quotes

I was around 15 when I first wanted to compete in an Olympics. I even remember the first time I got to wear a GB kit as a junior. I've even kept it. It's in my mum's loft somewhere, probably gone mouldy by now.

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

The first time I met Michael, we saw each other on a TV show.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

Every artist was first an amateur.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war that there have been changes in governments by such methods.

I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.

When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know?

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

I hate a movie that will end by telling you that the first thing you should do is learn to love yourself. That is so insulting and condescending, and so meaningless. My characters don't learn to love each other or themselves.

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.