“The first time that I came to Cannes, I think it was in 1953, I was 18 and unknown.” ThinkingFirstsFirst TimeCannes Author:Brigitte Bardot
“I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.” ThinkingFirstsCan DoTeamFirst TimeManagersBest ThingsFounders Author:Sam Altman
“At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting to see them take their first steps on the international ladder. I'd like to think maybe in five years time I'll look back and I'll forget all about the lost luggage and I'll forget about the horrible hotel, but I'll remember these wonderful athletes stepping onto the track for the first time.” ThinkingYearsFirstsLooksEndsWholeRememberYoungLostForgetStepsFiveWonderfulFirst TimeInternationalAthleteTrackBritishScalesHorribleFive YearsHotelFirst StepsLaddersLuggage Author:Jill Douglas
“I think there were six or eight weeks between 'Total Recall' and 'Seven Psychopaths.' I was at home in Los Angeles for 'Seven Psychopaths,' so it was the first time I had worked from my house here so it was great to be around the kids.” ThinkingFirstsHomeKidsHouseWeekSixFirst TimeSevenEightLos AngelesRecallsPsychopathTotal Recall Author:Colin Farrell
“I just saw Twilight on TV, for the first time, a few days ago, and, when my song came on, I was just thinking that is so bazaar that I actually had a song in the movie.” ThinkingFirstsSongSawsTvsFirst TimeTwilightBazaars Author:Robert Pattinson
“Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.” ThinkingKnowsMenWritingTryingFirstsWellsLooksMeanI CanPlayWholeInspirationHappensTogetherSongGrowsCausesSpecialPicksFirst TimeGuitarPlentyTunesSongwriting Author:Bob Marley
“I think the first time you have to change code you’ve written previously, to add features or remove a bug, you realize that you could have done it better in the first place, that you could have found an architecture that would make it easier to transform and grow the code. And this is terribly seductive—you’re not just building a solution to a problem, you’re potentially building a beautiful solution, with ‘beautiful’ here being defined here by an aesthetics of present and future functionality. This can be a trap.” ThinkingFirstsDoneProblemBeautifulFoundGrowsRealizingWrittenBuildingEasierSolutionsFirst TimeAddArchitectureDefinedCodeFeaturesRemoveTrapsBugsAestheticsSeductiveSolution To A ProblemFunctionality Author:Vikram Chandra
“After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.” ThinkingMenFirstsGamesFirst TimeGolfGolf Course Author:Tom Watson
“We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. You know, it's only out here that stupid people like us can really think. The weightlessness gets our thoughts and we can sort them. Ideas grow out here like nowhere else - it's the right environment for them. Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantFirstsIdeasHardEnoughDreamGrowsSpaceBreakEnvironmentStupidFirst TimeGravityBowsTicketsTravelerOur ThoughtsFloatingAstronautStupid PeopleSpace TravelArchesWeightlessness Author:Fritz Leiber
“If I see a movie for the first time on DVD, I watch it all the way through, the lights are down, I don't pick up the phone. The third or fourth time you see a movie, sometimes you just have them on and you check in every once in a while with things that you liked. I think it's a different expectations from that environment.” IfsThinkingWayFirstsDifferentSometimesLightWatchesEnvironmentPicksExpectationsFirst TimeThirdsPhonesChecksFourthDvds Author:David Fincher
“When I was about 14. I saw my first mountain. I saw the ocean for the first time. I remember thinking that that ocean looked very similar to our wheat fields. I didn't know what I thought I would see when I looked out at the ocean, but I thought I'd see something different.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsDifferentRememberSawsFieldsMountainOceanFirst TimeWheatWheat Fields Author:Dennis Hopper
“When I was like 12 or 13,Muhammad Ali gave me a pair of his trunks that were white satin with gold stripes. They were full of blood, and my mother threw them away. I think it's the first time I ever cursed at my mother.” ThinkingFirstsMotherWhiteBloodFirst TimeGoldPairsMuhammadCursedTrunksStripesSatin Author:Mickey Rourke
“Well, it was interesting because when I was going to do it the first time in my head was Leonardo DiCaprio [for Chris] and Marlon Brando was going to play the character that Hal Holbrook eventually played. But then when it wasn't to be and there was no promise that it ever would be I think some part of me didn't want to attach specifics to it anymore - actors or anything else - because I wanted to see it made that much more badly.” ThinkingWantFirstsWellsMadePlayCharacterWould BeWantedActorsInterestingPromiseFirst TimeLeonardoBrandoSpecifics Author:Sean Penn
“It was really fun and intimate in a way. Working with George Miller is exquisite. Gloria is different from anything I've ever played before. The first time I saw the characters in the studio I remember thinking that Mumble looked just like Elijah, with such a cute and endearing face. I don't think Gloria looks that much like me.” ThinkingWayFirstsLooksDifferentCharacterRememberFacesFunSawsFirst TimeStudiosLike MeCuteIntimateExquisiteElijahEndearingGloria Author:Brittany Murphy
“'Boneless,' even though we were thinking about servicing it to radio, it made more sense putting a vocal on there. This was actually the first time that I really looked at doing a song for radio and kind of let go of some control and listened to a lot of different radio pluggers and had Ultra come in and help out with ideas.” ThinkingFirstsKindMadeIdeasDifferentHelpingSongLetting GoFirst TimeRadioVocalUltras Author:Steve Aoki
“Oil companies earned a permanent enemy in me when they messed with the electric car the first time around, and I think they continue to do a disservice in making it seem like fossil fuels are cheaper than they really are in terms of total cost.” ThinkingFirstsSeemsTermCompanyEnemyCarCostFirst TimeOilPermanentFuelElectricFossilsCheaperFossil FuelDisserviceOil CompaniesElectric Car Author:Chris Paine
“I almost dropped dead the first time I heard Bob Dole say 'gay marriage' on the floor of the senate. He wasn't saying nice things, but he said it! I never thought in my lifetime I'd hear that. I just think we're moving now at warp speed. Even when we take a step back like with prop 8, we take two steps forward.” ThinkingFirstsSaidTwoMovingStepsNiceHeardGayFirst TimeLifetimeSpeedSenateBobGay MarriageNice ThingsPropsSteps ForwardWarp Author:Cherry Jones
“I've always wanted to be a voice actor. Well I think at first I wanted to be a singer. Then in middle school I auditioned for a musical and I only really cared because I wanted to sing in it. I had to act as well as part of the audition and that was the first time I ever really acted, and I was like 'Oh hey, this is fun, I like doing this.'” ThinkingFirstsWellsWantedSchoolActorsFunVoiceMiddleFirst TimeMusicalSingersHeyAuditionsMiddle School Author:Ashly Burch
“Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.” IfsThinkingKnowsFirstsFeltAliveChangedFirst Time Book:Dreamland Source: Dreamland
“When you first time you fall in love, you think that is going to be your whole life project, loving someone. It burns your brain, you kind of become blind, the moment you see the person you're in love with you want to see that person again and again and again, kiss that person, hug that person. You turn blank to the rest of the world.” ThinkingWorldWantFirstsKindPersonsWholeMomentsTurnsFallBrainLove YouKissingProjectsFirst TimeBlindFalling In LoveWhole LifeHugAgain And AgainBlankLoving Someone Author:Gaspar Noe
“I've always had good relationships with directors. I'm one of those people where, if there's a good idea coming from the sound guy, I'll take it. Filmmaking is a collaborative effort, whether it's a first-time director or it's Mike Nichols. I think that's the standard that the great ones set.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsIdeasGuySoundEffortDirectorsStandardsFirst TimeGood IdeasFilmmakingMikeGreat OnesGood RelationshipCollaborative Effort Author:Patrick Wilson
“...what's always exciting is when you hear something amazing when you least expected it. Every now and then I'll hear something for the first time that forces me to re-examine my frames of reference, and re-consider musical parameters in general, and that's wonderful . And what's even more wonderful in a way, is when you hear something that you know, and already think you have an opinion about, and then suddenly discover that it isn't what you thought it was, but something quite different, which makes it just as surprising as if you'd never heard it before. That's REALLY great!” IfsThinkingKnowsWayFirstsDifferentForceOpinionWonderfulHeardFirst TimeExcitingMusicalExpectedSurprisingNow And ThenReally GreatParametersFrame Of Reference Author:Fred Frith
“This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.” ThinkingWorldWantFirstsWeaknessFirst Time Author:Diana Vreeland
“It's a very interesting fight [Klitchko vs Tyson Fury] because this is the first time [Wladimir] Klitschko is fighting someone as big as him and with longer arms. He will have to be a little bit more aggressive, otherwise the younger guy will have more speed and more energy and I think that may be the difference.” ThinkingFirstsMayLittlesBigsGuyFightingEnergyBitsDifferencesInterestingArmsLittle BitFirst TimeSpeedAggressiveVery InterestingFuryTyson Author:Lennox Lewis
“You see something for the first time, you experience something for the first time, you feel something for the first time, it's much harder. I think that it's painful, but at the same time I think it should be the way to experience the world.” ThinkingWorldWayFeelsShouldFirstsFirst TimeHarderPainful Author:Lukas Moodysson
“I think, a lot of times, directors assume that whatever they get from you the first time, whether it be at an audition or on set, is all that you can bring.” ThinkingFirstsDirectorsFirst TimeAssumingAuditions Author:Zoe Kazan
“I remember the first time I fell in love. That rush is just overwhelming and you don't think there's ever going to be anything like it.” ThinkingFirstsRememberFirst TimeOverwhelming Author:Chris Lowell
“I think the first time I really felt that I was Palestinian was a time when I was trying to go back to school with my father at night and there was a curfew for Palestinians. My father said, "I will walk first, but you have to understand, the police will not let me go... So keep moving and don't look at me and don't look back."” ThinkingTryingFirstsLooksSaidSchoolMovingNightFatherFeltWalksFirst TimeLet MePolicePalestinianLook At MeKeep MovingLet Me GoCurfew Author:Rula Jebreal
“As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched" from the first time they started to push the idea that Iraq and 9/11 were connected, though they didn't seem to be and there was no logical reason for thinking they were. It's like your neighbors the Smiths burned your house down, and then the next day you retaliated by burning down the Jones' house.” ThinkingFirstsIdeasWarReasonSeemsNextHouseFeltInformationLike YouCitizensFirst TimeDown AndIraqConnectedNeighborBurningLogicalBurnedNext DayBurning Down Author:Christopher Durang
“I mean, they clearly have a process of how they go about making their movies, and John Lasseter has been instrumental in implementing that process for all three studios with the Brain Trust and the way we work and the way we break stories and how it's all creative led. There are no executives in the room. So I think all of that is embraced unilaterally. But that's the first time I've heard of that.” ThinkingWayFirstsMeanHas BeensStoriesThreeProcessRoomsBrainBreakCreativeHeardFirst TimeStudiosExecutivesImplementing Author:Klay Hall
“'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.” ThinkingKnowsMenWorldFirstsLooksDoeMatterRealityEarthRememberNamesWaterForgetFireAirTasteFirst TimeTransformationFellowsLipsEsteemLook UpAir And WaterWords Matter Author:Roger Zelazny
“Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time aligning its values with those of 'the majority of the world's population.' If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that is has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that is has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted.” IfsThinkingWorldShouldFirstsMadeAmericaValuesLibertyFirst TimeMajorityPopulationThanksBarackDelightedAmerican Society Author:Dennis Prager
“My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out we were incredibly inspired by it. I used to cut pictures out of it and make posters that said, "Girls can do anything", and stuff like that, and my mom was inspired to work at a basement of a church doing anti-domestic violence work. Then she took me to the Soidarity Day thing, and it was the first time I had ever been in a big crowd of women yelling, and it really made me want to do it forever.” PeopleThinkingWantFirstsMadeSaidBigsUsedGirlStuffCan DoChurchForeverCuttingViolenceMomFirst TimeInspiredFeministCrowdsMy MomMagazinesDomestic ViolencePostersYellingHousewifeBasementsInspired To Work Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I think the one thing I would point to as a primary reason, basically, is that I was a gigantic ass, ... It's the first time I got dumped in my life.” ThinkingFirstsReasonOne ThingFirst TimeAssPrimariesDumped Author:David Letterman
“A friend of mine had his own theatre company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.” ThinkingFirstsI CanPlayReadingGrowsFeltSimpleCompanyCareersStageMinesFirst TimeSightTheatreLove At First SightGang Author:David Alan Grier
“I've always been funny. I look back in the day, when I would take the mic from my dad in church and just start goin', at age six, the first time I did it. I think 14 was when I knew I wanted to do it and promote my own comedy shows at the church. Then, everyone would come.” ThinkingFirstsLooksShowsAgeWantedChurchMy OwnComedyDadSixFirst TimeMy DadBack In The DayMicsComedy Shows Author:Brandon T. Jackson
“After the make-up process, I was like, "I never want to do a sci-fi movie where I'm in make-up for seven months." It's interesting. It was my first time ever getting prosthetics. They put this goopy stuff all over your head and they tell you it's like a facial, but it's actually very claustrophobic. All they have are these places where your nostrils are and I kept thinking that they were closing up, but they were like, "No, we're looking at it." So, they made a mold of my face.” ThinkingWantFirstsMadeFacesStuffProcessInterestingMonthsFirst TimeSevenOver YouSci FiClosingMoldFacialProstheticsSeven MonthsSci Fi MovieClosing Up Author:Tinsel Korey
“As all my friends said, 'Linda, enjoy this time.' It wasn't enjoyable the first time because they're were too many questions. But I think I've lived a solid life. You can look at who I've been, good, bad or indifferent.” ThinkingFirstsLooksSaidEnjoyMy FriendsFirst TimeIndifferentEnjoyable Author:Linda Blair
“When I was probably in middle school I saw the mini series Angels in America for the first time and I think Mary Louise Parker's performance in that first of all sparked a deep obsession with Mary Louise Parker, but I also really love Amy Adams because she gets to do comedy and drama so consistently.” ThinkingFirstsSchoolAmericaSawsComedyMiddleDramaAngelFirst TimePerformancesSeriesObsessionMaryConsistentlyAmyMiddle SchoolAngels In America Author:Grace Phipps
“Perseverance. I got cut twice. I got cut in Charlotte. I didn't have to go to Atlanta to audition. I could have said, "I'm not cut out for this." But I said, "I think I'm better than that, I can go try again." So I went to Atlanta and I made it through. Then I got cut the first time around. I could have told them I didn't want to come back for the Wild Card show but I did and look how far I got.” ThinkingWantTryingFirstsLooksMadeSaidI CanShowsCuttingFirst TimePerseveranceCardsMade ItAuditionsTry AgainAtlantaCharlotte Author:Clay Aiken
“I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsFallGayHappeningsFirst TimeFalling In LoveTransgender Author:Cate Blanchett
“I have always played a lone hand. It is the way my mind works. I have to do my own seeing and my own thinking. But I can tell you that after the market began to go my way I felt for the first time in my life that I had allies - the strongest and truest in the world: underlying conditions. They were helping me with all their might.” ThinkingWorldWayMindFirstsI CanHelpingHandsMightFeltMy OwnSeeingConditionsFirst TimeMy WayStrongestAlliesTruestLone Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore
“Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.” ThinkingYearsFirstsUsedWalksHappeningsFirst TimeRedCarpetRed Carpet Author:Jeff Bridges
“You guys have to understand that I started in as deep of waters as there is. I've been the underdog since the first time I put gloves on. I love my fans but I don't give a crap about who thinks who is gonna win or not. This isn't a team sport. I'm the one that has to deal with the person fighting in front of me.” ThinkingGivingFirstsPersonsGuyFightingWinningSportsWaterDealsTeamFansFrontsFirst TimeCrapGlovesUnderdogSports Team Author:Joe Warren
“I think I live inside the plane! I never have time to unpack; I'm always leaving in two days again. I travel a lot, and at the beginning it was really fun. The first time I went inside a plane, I was 15 years old and I had so much fun. I like to travel all over the world and learn [about] new cultures. Not that many people have the opportunity to do that.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsFirstsTwoCultureOpportunityFunFirst TimeLeavingPlanesTwo DaysNew CulturesAlways Leaving Author:Adriana Lima
“I did large drawings of couples having sex! Men and woman enjoying intercourse and oral sex in a Madison Avenue Gallery? That was the first time I broke a barrier that made me think, some idiot is going to blow my brains out for sure.” ThinkingMenFirstsMadeSexEnjoyBrainCoupleFirst TimeBlowDrawingBrokeIdiotBarriersAvenuesGalleryIntercourseX MenHaving SexMadisonMadison Avenue Author:Betty Dodson
“The first time I actually heard any of the Beatles' music it was in a car. I think it was the, the B side of their first record. I think it was "I Want to ... I Want to Hold Your Hand". And it, it really sounded different to me. And it sounded a bit like trouble, like this is something new 'cause I very rarely paid any attention to what anyone else was doing.” ThinkingWantFirstsDifferentHandsCausesBitsSidesAttentionRecordsTroubleHeardCarFirst TimePaidSomething New Author:Jeff Barry
“Between Pope Francis tour of the U.S. which I think was a triumph really for liberals, he really sort of for the first time in a long time made the Catholics sort of on the side of liberalism.” ThinkingFirstsLongMadeSidesLong TimeFirst TimeCatholicTriumphLiberalismPope Author:Joy-Ann Reid
“I think when I started acting it was the first time I got the freedom of expression. I was able to express certain emotions and feelings that I could put into other characters, so it was a good way for me to run away from ho I personally was. I could be a ninja, I could be a pirate or I could be in a play y'know.” ThinkingKnowsWayFirstsPlayCharacterFeelingsRunningAbleCertainActingEmotionExpressionFirst TimeRunning AwayPirateGood WayFreedom Of ExpressionNinja Author:Adam Beach
“I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously started making music was when this one kid joined our class. He was an amazing pianist and would come up with all these ideas. I've always had a really competitive side, so I saw him doing that, and was like, "I have to try writing songs as well."” ThinkingWritingTryingFirstsWellsIdeasKidsSchoolSongSidesClassBoysGrowing UpSawsGrowingFirst TimeCome UpWriting SongsChoirPianist Author:St. Lucia