The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
First and foremost, food needs to be delicious. It should pop and explode with flavor. Food should please all the senses.
For me, Rajinikanth is, first and foremost, a colleague. I don’t want to think of our relation in terms of like, say, from ‘Thalapathi’ to ‘Kochadaiyaan.’
A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community.
If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it’s to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.
Success to me would be first and foremost to have a family. I was an only child for 18 years and I’m Latino, so I love big families and creating a small home world.
Me and Coach Koetter have a great relationship, first and foremost, and we’ve got the same goal when we go out there on that football field – and that’s to win the football game.
Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.
Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.
He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there’s controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.
Poland is an attractive country, and first and foremost it’s got a very important strategic location in Europe.
What I do is I basically make records to please myself first and foremost, and so one of the most important things for me as a musician and a writer and a producer is to feel like there’s always a sense of evolution and reinvention with each record.
I actually met Donald Trump and shook his hand and looked him in the eye, and it tells me a lot when you look a person in the eye. He’s a man’s man first and foremost; you know, you can’t pretty much, you know, put him to the side and expect anything less than a good fight.
My job on ‘Dark Shadows’ was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having.
First and foremost, localization is a customer strategy, it’s not a cost arbitrage or whatever.
There is a heavy-ego, solitary model of being an elected leader. We’ve certainly seen that in some other mayors of this city… I have much more of a Movement mentality. It’s much more of what I’m steeped in. I don’t think it is first and foremost about me. It’s about the ideas and the agenda.
If I’m in a gathering of filmmakers, I’m first and foremost a British Indian; if I’m in a gathering of British Indians, I’m a woman director. There are so many sides to who I am that I change all the time.
What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they’ve left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it’s all about teamwork.
I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as ‘first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don’t fit, into their social worlds.’
For the novice furniture collector, buying antiques can seem a rather daunting prospect. Nobody wants to feel that they may not make a wise choice and that ultimately they could be throwing their money away. The main thing is that you should always buy something first and foremost because you like it.
For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if not the form, of slavery in a segregated and discriminatory social system.
The foremost threat to Iraq’s long-term stability and the broader regional equilibrium is not the Islamic State, it is Shiite militias, many backed by – and some guided by – Iran.
First and foremost, I am a writer. That’s what I have spent my life doing.
First and foremost, it’s a psychological issue and it’s mental concentration – that’s all it is. We’re all big enough and strong enough to hold onto to the ball, it’s just whether or not you want to focus in on it.
First and foremost, I want to be the champ.
First and foremost, I’m a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.
First and foremost, we have to ensure that we have to get our own kids ready for work so that employers want to take them on.
A Jewish deli should specialize in, first and foremost, Yiddish foods, the foods of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews. So, if it’s a place that specializes in pizza or chicken wings or diner food and then does a corned beef sandwich on the side, it’s not a Jewish delicatessen.
Stage is definitely my home first and foremost – I still feel like I’m yet to earn my stripes on set.
Competitions are a business, first and foremost.
We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.
When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there’s no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.
These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.
I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.
I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‘Off the Wall’ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.
What the world needs most for its stability, and what the U.S. needs for its national security, is economic growth, which is driven first and foremost by expanded carbon use.
At the end of the day, I represent myself first and foremost, and I’m not going to ever purposely try and misrepresent myself.
From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the affection and confidence of the people, I am proud to say, I have a great share.
As a manager, first and foremost I want a team with a good mentality, a team with character, a team that represents the club and the fans.
I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,’ or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America’s security foremost in mind?
We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost – that is important.
For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.
First and foremost, that was always my passion: I wanted to wrestle, but unfortunately, it took me down a road that I can’t do that anymore.
I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.
It is hard to see taxing plastic bags as one of the great issues of our time that merits the foremost place in our finest statesmen’s minds. It is an absurd little issue, a picayune proportion of household waste, and a pointless inconvenience in people’s lives.
Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.
We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.
I think there’s something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn’t want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.
I’d say that, first and foremost, I’m a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
Well, I think the thing that was always important to us, first and foremost, was that our Loki, it’s his journey that he goes on, and that’s something that we definitely were looking at for a long time.
