First Quotes · Page 90

Even from my first pro fight in 2004, I've been encountering resistance from all around me.

— Dan Hardy

Euro 2012 was my first title, yet most of the other guys have already won plenty of silverware.

— Jordi Alba

I started producing for Pump - I produced his first songs. 'Lil Pump,' 'Elementary,' 'Johnny Dang' - all that I produced.

— Smokepurpp

I'm a footballer first and foremost and I want to be remembered for what I do on the pitch.

— Adebayo Akinfenwa

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

— Yoshihiko Noda

'The Flintstones' was the first animated series to appear on nighttime TV.

— William Hanna

I came into films with 'Hare Rama Hare Krishna.' My first film was actually 'Hulchul,' but it was released after 'HRHK.'

— Zeenat Aman

I'm the first AEW original wrestler to win a singles title with the TNT championship. That was a big thing for me.

— Darby Allin

The first time you meet someone, they're a new acquaintance, the second time you have a bit of an understanding, and the…

— Kathryn Minshew

The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he…

— Apolo Ohno

With 'Brick,' the style with language and the way it was shot was to create a world obviously elevated from the very…

— Rian Johnson

I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life,…

— Karin Slaughter

“The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I…

— Simona Panova

At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in the hands of competent loyalists, thus…

— Richard V. Allen

I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the…

— Kate Micucci

I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films…

— John Cusack

My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I…

— Raymond Loewy

First impressions matter more in basketball than in any other sport, and they can be savored only in person. Players can't hide…

— Bill Simmons

“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I…

— Edmund White

'The X-Files' from the beginning was a very visual show, and with Bob Mandel directing the pilot and Dan Sackheim being involved…

— Chris Carter

Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village.…

— Michael Specter

The way I approach any role, whether it's comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy…

— Matt McGorry

When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you…

— Dan O'Brien

At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.

— Robert Dallek

I got promoted to co-anchor of the early-morning show 'Fox & Friends First' in 2013.

— Ainsley Earhardt

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

— Orhan Pamuk

To expose a first draft to anyone's ears other than your own is indecent.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Swimming is the root of surfing. The first board you ever have is your body.

— Laird Hamilton

My first triumph was turning Elton John's 'Benny and the Jets' into a gospel tune.

— Kirk Franklin

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

— Debra Messing

When I first started out, all I thought about was my own acting.

— Son Ye-jin

Double Dhamaal' is my first family entertainer and I liked acting in it because it has lots of gags and comedy.

— Mallika Sherawat

I still cherish the memory of walking into the Parliament for the first time.

— Preneet Kaur

I first came to the Garden when I was a sophomore in college. The old, old Garden.

— Jim Boeheim

If music sounds dated, it means it wasn't very good in the first place.

— Tony Bennett

Do I regret saying business should not be first before winning? Absolutely not.

— Chris Sale

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

— Nana Mouskouri

I liked Eddie Van Halen, when he first came out, because he was doing something original.

— Marky Ramone

Eazy-E was the person to take me on my first tour, and there was nobody telling him to do it.

— Too Short