My first and foremost consideration is the safety of the people of the city of Minneapolis. And my first and foremost consideration is making sure that people can also express their constitutional rights peaceably.
Betsy Hodges
PeopleCitySafetyFirstRights
In early 1798, the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon organized and carried out the invasion of Egypt, which became the first modern incursion by the West into the Middle East.
Tom Reiss
PlanEarlyEgyptFirstTopOut
My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.
Sara Blakely
SellingFirstYearsMachinesJust
When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.
Marv Levy
PoetryMeReadingFirstStarted
It was really hard to find another project after my first film.
Guillaume Canet
FindFirstProjectHardFilmAfter
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Jacques Lacan
WordsManLanguageBornBirthFirst
Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
Andrea Bocelli
LifeSuccessFaithPlayWayFirst
When we launched the first version of Basecamp in 2004, we decided to build software for small companies just like us.
Jason Fried
SmallBuildSoftwareFirstUsJust
When I first began modeling, I was very conventional looking. I had hair down to my waist in a side parting - almost church-like. But beneath the sheath of hair lay this Amazonian, strong-looking frame.
Erin O'Connor
HairLookingModelingDownFirst
The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled.
Jeff Koons
WaitingRememberSculptureFirstGot
I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.
Charles Kimbrough
TimeSchoolNewFirstOutJust
I started producing for Pump - I produced his first songs. 'Lil Pump,' 'Elementary,' 'Johnny Dang' - all that I produced.
Smokepurpp
FirstStartedSongsPumpElementary
Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.
Wilhelm Wundt
FirstPsychologyPhysiological
First of all it has never been the case that I have threatened people with expulsion or that I've threatened to throw people out of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
Ron Davies
PeoplePartyNeverFirstOutBeen
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
Juvenal
HeartManGuiltyPunishmentFirst
I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, 'Dog Soldiers.' I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England.
Neil Marshall
DogI AmFirstSoldiersYearsFilm
My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
John Boyega
LanguageFirstFortunateEnglish
The thing is, I get asked when I first knew I wanted to act so often, and I genuinely can't answer it. It's just... I got the bug, and that's it.
Millie Bobby Brown
FirstActAnswerGotGetJust
I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.
Gil Scott-Heron
SchoolBlackGoThreeFirst
When I first started acting, I was just crap.
Heath Ledger
ActingFirstStartedJustCrap
One of the first comic things you do is imitate.
Robert Mankoff
YouFirstThingsImitateComic
Vilnius was once known as 'The Jerusalem of Lithuania' because of the number of prayer houses and scholars there; in the first half of the 20th century, it became a center of Yiddish-language scholarship.
Elizabeth McCracken
PrayerScholarshipFirstJerusalem
It is always a good feeling to score the first goal in a new stadium.
Alvaro Morata
GoodFeelingGoalNewFirstAlways
I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
Betty White
WomenHollywoodFirstProducers
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