“I first met the brand [Didier Dubot] when I went to an event for them on Top of The Standard. It was about three years ago. It was the first time I heard about them and then that's where I met them.” YearsFirstsThreeHeardEventsMetsStandardsFirst TimeYears AgoBrandsThree Years Author:Julia Restoin Roitfeld
“At age 20 I went to go find my father in Nigeria. And after much toil, I finally figured out exactly where he was. And there's something about seeing your father for the first time - my mother destroyed all pictures of him.” FirstsAgeMotherFatherSeeingFirst TimeDestroyedToilNigeria Author:Kehinde Wiley
“The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, "Permaculture Two is a seditious book." And I said, "At last someone understands what permaculture's about."” WritingYearsFirstsSaidTwoBookLastsThreeSawsFirst TimeReviewsThree YearsPermaculture Author:Bill Mollison
“When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It was so atrocious and so high that actually nobody could accumulate money in an honest way. I removed that tax, and the result was that Indian companies for the first time acquired an incentive to grow big, to grow rich.” WayFirstsBigsGrowsWealthResultsCompanyRichHonestTaxesFirst TimeRateIncomeFinanceIndianMinistersTaxationIncentives Author:Manmohan Singh
“I remember when Ronald Reagan was president he said 'if the American people obeyed the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule we wouldn't have any problems.' The first time I heard him say it I thought, 'That's too simplistic.' There are complicated problems back there. But you analyze it, he's right.” PeopleIfsFirstsSaidProblemRememberPresidentHeardTenFirst TimeComplicatedGoldenCommandmentsRemember WhenGolden RuleTen Commandments Author:Bill Bright
“I do think that as I said before the canvas of action sequences and the way in which the sequences unfurl will be very unique and will be different than any movie we've made before, and that's what makes it interesting, what makes it [Doctor Strange] special, and what makes it worth pursuing, and worth bringing to life for the first time.” ThinkingWayFirstsMadeSaidDifferentActionInterestingSpecialStrangeUniqueFirst TimeDoctorsCanvasSequence Author:Kevin Feige
“To be fair, it's not even the first time I've seen a dead version of myself. There was one on Harry Potter, on the last movie, that they actually used to bring to set in a body bag.” FirstsBodyLastsUsedFirst TimeFairsVersionsBagsHarry PotterPotters Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“The first time I ran for office in 2002, running for governor in Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, we actually worked with a Democratic legislator to file that bill, so that there would be no risk of splitting the vote. The Democrats had about 85% of the Legislature at that time. They could have easily protected their access to the governorship. But they refused to do so. They wouldn't let the bill out of committee.” FirstsWould BeRunningRiskOfficeFirst TimeVoteBillsDemocraticDemocratAccessRanProtectedGovernorsCommitteesFilesRomneyLegislatureLegislatorsMassachusettsSplitting Author:Jill Stein
“I don't really remember much before was eight, but I do remember that my dad brought me to drop me off at my grandmother's house, and he was a very emotional guy, but that was the first time I really saw him cry, cos I knew it killed him to have to give me up, but he knew I needed some family structure. That was the last time I'd see him or talk to him when he was sober for the next 10 years.” GivingYearsFirstsLastsRememberGuyNextHouseSawsCryEmotionalNeededDadFirst TimeGive MeStructureMy DadEightGrandmotherLast TimeSoberMy Grandmother Author:Diamond Dallas Page
“There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing.” FirstsKindArtistFirst TimeMy FavoriteReactionsFavorites ThingsAdverse Author:Regina Spektor
“[The Raindance film festival] is literally the first time we've ever screened the movie ["Selling Isobel"] to anyone, and people are a little bit traumatised by it.” PeopleFirstsLittlesFilmBitsLittle BitFirst TimeSellingFestivalsFilm Festivals Author:Rudolf Buitendach
“That one [in "2012"] was different because it was all CG, getting washed away by water. In "Independence Day," everything was still done in models, built in a certain scale out of plaster, and packing tons and tons of little explosives and charges in there. We had a second one in case it didn't work the first time, but it worked the first time.” FirstsLittlesStillsDifferentDoneCertainWaterCasesModelsFirst TimeBuiltIndependenceScalesExplosivesIndependence DayPackingPlasters Author:Roland Emmerich
“For the first time [with the Bible] - I know this sounds so corny - but I knew love. I had such an empty love tank. I had all the questions to life that didn't make sense. Two and two didn't add up to four. From my father's death - if you loved me, why did you leave me? Why did you kill yourself? And so when this happened, it took my life in a completely different direction.” IfsKnowsFirstsTwoDifferentFatherSoundFourHappenedFirst TimeEmptyAddMake SenseLeaving MeCornyTanksDifferent DirectionsKilling Yourself Author:Paula White
“The labor part wasn't so great, but seeing [my daughter] for the first time was pretty awesome. I mean, how does it get better than another actual person popping out of your stomach, you know?” KnowsFirstsMeanPersonsDoeSeeingDaughterFirst TimeLaborGet BetterMy DaughterStomachPoppingIt Gets Better Author:Cassandra Peterson
“Donald Trump has a plan, that he laid out in Arizona, that will deal systematically with illegal immigration, beginning with border security, internal enforcement. It's probably why for the first time in the history of immigrations and customs enforcement, their union actually endorsed Donald Trump as the next president of the United States, because they know they need help to enforce the laws of this country.” KnowsNeedsFirstsCountryStatesHelpingLawNextPresidentUnitedDealsUnited StatesPlansSecurityTrumpFirst TimeUnionsImmigrationBordersInternalsIllegalCustomsEnforcementArizonaNeed HelpIllegal ImmigrationBorder Security Author:Mike Pence
“The sanctity proceeds out of the belief... that ancient principle where God says "before you were formed in the womb I knew you," and so for the first time in my public life I sought to stand with great compassion for the sanctity of life.” FirstsBeliefCompassionPrinciplesFirst TimeAncientWombPublic LifeSanctitySanctity Of Life Author:Mike Pence
“Lifting the Stanley Cup for the first time. There's nothing like it. It's the greatest story. In my era, they used to say you couldn't be a superstar without winning one. I remember thinking when I lifted it: "Now they can't say that about me."” ThinkingFirstsStoriesRememberUsedWinningFirst TimeCupsErasLiftingSuperstarStanleyStanley Cup Author:Wayne Gretzky
“I didn't really know what I was until I came to America and I had sex [for the first time] in San Francisco in 1970. It was with someone of my own sex.” KnowsFirstsAmericaSexMy OwnFirst TimeSan Francisco Author:Elton John
“America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.” YearsFirstsMayCountryAmericaFieldsBecomingFirst TimeOur CountryDependentClothingsBecoming MoreImportsAppliances Author:Marcy Kaptur
“I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a book for the intellectual or the mental part of it, but, the first time, I just like to reach out and grab you, pull you in.” IfsWantFirstsBookWould BeEmotionalReaderIntellectualFirst TimeReach Out Author:Stephen King
“I think modeling is interesting, it's obviously nice to take on a character and go through the process. I'm very lucky that I've been able to do that but I think the challenges that come with the responsibility of art directing something is something that appeals to me. I've done it before in collaboration with other people but it's the first time someone's literally handed it over and been like, "What do you want?" It was really fun to kind of dream up a concept and then execute it with all my friends.” PeopleThinkingWantFirstsKindArtDoneCharacterDreamAbleFunProcessChallengesInterestingResponsibilityNiceLuckyConceptsMy FriendsFirst TimeAppealsCollaborationModeling Author:Alexa Chung
“It just so happened that J.C.[Chandor] was a first-time feature director, and his script was exactly the kind of thing we were looking for.” FirstsKindHappenedDirectorsFirst TimeScriptsFeatures Author:Zachary Quinto
“J.C. [Chandor] was the kind of energy we were looking for, so we decided to get behind it with all of our effort. That was the beginning of our relationship with first-time feature directors, and that's when it became really important to us, watching them thrive and grow in a creative environment in which you can do that was really key. Also his work checked all the boxes, because it was socially relevant and intellectually driven, and creatively exciting.” FirstsKindImportantEnergyGrowsCan DoEffortBehindsCreativeEnvironmentKeysDirectorsFirst TimeDecidedExcitingBoxesDrivenFeaturesThriveRelevantOur Relationship Author:Zachary Quinto
“While we were shooting the movie, we shot in the actual hotel in Hong Kong where it all went down, the Mira Hotel. Laura Poitras was coming to Hong Kong to do a screening of Citizenfour, and she ended up staying at the Mira Hotel. It was her first time back in Hong Kong, and I ran into her in the elevator. Literally I had just finished shooting one day, and I came back to the hotel and she was in the elevator.” FirstsOne DayShotsFirst TimeFinishedShootingRanHotelStayingElevatorsScreeningHong KongLaura Author:Zachary Quinto
“I feel like that [the role in Star Trek] is a prime example of, yeah, I got that role and it was awesome, because it changed a lot for me professionally, but then creatively, it became a whole other thing, with J.J. [Abrams] and Chris [Pine] and the people I got to know. Now I just feel like it's our jobs to be open and to keep moving stuff forward. I don't know what that means. This is the first time in a long time that I have no idea what's happening next. As scary as that is, and as anxiety-provoking as that can still be, it's also really exciting.” PeopleKnowsFeelsFirstsMeanLongStillsIdeasWholeJobsMovingNextStarsStuffRolesExampleChangedAnxietyLong TimeHappeningsFirst TimeExcitingYeahScaryNo IdeaPrimeProvokingKeep MovingAbram Author:Zachary Quinto
“Everyone, young and old, was responding to [Frank] Sinatra. So, the first time that I physically remember, it was as a youth. He always seemed to be there, let me put it that way. I can't remember the exact first time, but I can remember the effect his voice had on me.” WayFirstsI CanRememberYoungVoiceEffectsYouthFirst TimeLet MeFrankRespondingYoung And Old Author:Robert Davi
“I feel really urgent about this election. This is the first time in my voting life that I feel not only passionate about my candidate, but also that the alternative would be catastrophic. I want to help the best candidate win.” WantFeelsFirstsHelpingWould BeWinningFirst TimeElectionPassionateAlternativesCandidatesVotingUrgent Author:Natalie Portman
“When I saw that scene [in ocean from the Aquarius] for the first time, it blew me away. It caused me to reflect on my age, my history and all that I've been through in Brazil. Having been away from Brazil for so long, while not speaking in my own tongue, when I saw that image, I felt like I was taking my first deep breath after nearly suffocating to death. It was like the plastic had been removed from my head. Even if this breath turned out to be my last, at least I got to have this one moment of release. At least I got this one chance.” IfsFirstsLongMomentsAgeLastsFeltChanceMy OwnSawsSceneOceanFirst TimeBreathsTongueReleasePlasticBrazilDeep BreathOne ChanceSuffocatingAquarius Author:Sonia Braga
“I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt like Kleber [Mendonca] had been spying on me in order to create this role [in Aquarius]. Clara and I have different backgrounds. I come from an intuitive world, and she's an academic, but when we got together, we really became one. There are many times when I'm watching the film where Clara will say something, and I will find myself agreeing with her. It was the first time that I had this weird sensation that the character I played is so me, but yet it's so her.” WorldFirstsDifferentCharacterTogetherFilmOrderFeltRolesNew YorkFirst TimeScriptsBackgroundsSensationsAcademicIntuitiveDifferent BackgroundsAquariusClara Author:Sonia Braga
“I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the first and last time. I learned that it wasn't.” ThinkingFirstsWould BeTogetherLastsFirst TimeCriedLast TimeFirsts And Lasts Author:Michel'le
“I have this awareness that the more dynamic the situation is, the more on guard I need to be that the dynamic isn't controlling the situation. I found that myself in the Galapagos. For the first time in my life I was around very exotic animals, colorful, beautiful, and immediately present, all around. Birds, turtles, iguanas, seals. I was being seduced by their exoticism, I was taking pictures.The pictures weren't well lit, there was no moment in play, there was no depth to the pictures. I was just gawking with my camera at something I'd never seen before.” NeedsFirstsWellsPlayMomentsBeautifulFoundAnimalSituationAwarenessBirdFirst TimeCamerasDepthLitExoticSealsColorfulTurtlesTaking PicturesIguanasExotic Animals Author:Sam Abell
“[In the late 80's] that's the first time I heard about that astonishing idea [that most photographs would be taken on telephones]. And now I've been watching the tsunami of images.” FirstsIdeasWould BeTakenHeardLateFirst TimePhotographTelephonesAstonishingTsunami Author:Sam Abell
“I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't know. Neurosis.” KnowsFirstsDoneShowsEyeFilmFirst TimeNeurosis Author:Ti West
“Tommy Nohilly, who plays Tubby [ Valley of Violence], he came down to see the movie for the first time and I was like, "You've got to come just to see people react to your [big scene]." I knew that would go well, but it's satisfying to me when he's sitting there and it actually does.” PeopleFirstsWellsDoePlayBigsViolenceLike YouSceneSittingFirst TimeValleysSatisfying Author:Ti West
“When I ran for mayor of New York City, the first time, some people voted eight and ten times. And second time I had firefighters and police officers outside checking on the buses so we take down the number of the bus, the bus had voted ten times, and wouldn't let the bus vote again.” PeopleFirstsNumbersCitiesNew YorkTenFirst TimeVotePoliceEightRanBusNew York CityOfficersMayorsPolice OfficerFirefighter Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.” FirstsUsedWatchesSawsLateFirst TimeZoneTwilightTwilight Zone Author:Charlie Brooker
“I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.” FirstsWantedSeriousDadFirst TimeMy FamilyHorseMy DadPerformingJockeys Author:Janet Jackson
“I have a lot of special memories with my parents but my toughest one is, I had, as a teenager, a pretty insatiable appetite for beer. The first time I got drunk my father found me throwing up in the bathroom. I was 15, maybe 16, and the disappointment in his voice, I can hear it to this day, and the sorrow that that brought to him. He just felt like a failure as a father, and Id give anything to take that day back because that was so hard on him. In time, my life got better, and his did too, but that was really memorable, one of those memories Id like to forget.” GivingFirstsI CanHardFoundFatherFeltParentVoiceMemoriesForgetSpecialSorrowFirst TimeDisappointmentDrunkTeenagerBeerMemorableThis DayThrowingAppetiteBathroomInsatiableThrowing Up Author:Max Lucado
“When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there's a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time.” PeopleWayFirstsSometimesPurposeFirst TimeEncouragementRobust Author:David Kim
“For the first time in living memory, the whole class of graduates faces a future of crushing debt, and a high probability, almost the certainty, of ad hoc, temporary, insecure and part-time work and unpaid 'trainee' pseudo-jobs deceitfully rebranded as 'practices' - all considerably below the skills they have acquired and eons below the level of their expectations.” FirstsWholeJobsFacesMemoriesLevelsClassPracticeSkillsExpectationsFirst TimeDebtCertaintyCrushTemporaryAdsGraduatesInsecureProbabilityPseudoPart TimeTrainees Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all of her life.” FirstsHumansMotherHuman BeingsFirst TimeTreatedNakedDecent Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw, for the first time in my life, a black stewardess walking through a plane and that was quite an inspiration for me.” PeopleFirstsInspirationGovernmentRunningBlackSawsWalkingFirst TimePlanesBlack PeopleStewardess Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“When Tetro came out, I met with Warren Beatty for the first time. I had, like, a four-and-a-half-hour lunch with him, and then over the next five years continued to meet with him and go to his house.” YearsFirstsNextHouseHoursHalfFiveFourMetsFirst TimeFive YearsLunchHalf HoursBeatty Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“Whether or not you agree with Bernie Sanders' version of socialism, it is enormously significant that, for the first time in US history, a presidential candidates who calls himself a socialist has had an actual shot at winning the presidential election. And to his credit, he has not backed down from the label.” FirstsWinningShotsFirst TimeElectionAgreeCreditSignificantSocialismVersionsLabelsPresidentialCandidatesSocialistUs HistoryPresidential ElectionPresidential Candidate Author:Kshama Sawant
“It wasn't the first time. This happened to Dennis Kucinich. It happened to Jesse Jackson. They did it even to Howard Dean, creating the Dean scream. This is how they [democrats] work.” FirstsHappenedCreatingFirst TimeDemocratScreamDean Author:Jill Stein
“The first time I ever went to Chicago was with Zappa and I had a fantastic experiences with him and every other band I've played with. It's a great music town.” FirstsBandFirst TimeTownsFantasticChicagoGreat MusicZappa Author:Terry Bozzio
“The Pleiadians are opening an energetic timeline for the very first time in any seminar, allowing you to enter the timeline where all experience occurs, because everything exists in one moment.” FirstsMomentsFirst TimeOpeningAllowingEnergeticSeminarsTimelines Author:Christine McCormick Day
“I loved Road Warrior the first time. I saw The Road Warrior before I saw Mad Max, you know, I saw it in reverse order. And so I was, I've always been a fan of George Miller. This sequence I think got storyboarded after Fury Road came out I think as I recall. So I think, you know, we were inspired [making Maora].” ThinkingKnowsFirstsOrderSawsFansFirst TimeMadInspiredWarriorRecallsReverseSequenceFuryMaxMad Max Author:John Musker
“I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions of the world, being in the woods and taking things in. We're seeing the world as if for the first time. That's just fascinating.” IfsWorldFirstsPersonsWonderfulSeeingFirst TimeAccountsWoodsMonstersImpressionFascinatingMaryChaptersFirst PersonSeeing The WorldFirst ImpressionShelley Author:Mordicai Gerstein
“At the Rose bowl, when America was playing Mexico, and those that live in this country who have come here from Mexico booed the United States - there's a huge problem with that. This is not the first time that this has happened and I think that, that is because in the United States the cultural Marxist ideas of separating people into different racial groups.” PeopleThinkingFirstsIdeasDifferentCountryStatesProblemAmericaUnitedUnited StatesHappenedGroupsHugeFirst TimeRoseMexicoBowlsMarxistSeparating Author:Andrew Breitbart