That was how I had developed my singing style in the first place – imitating other singers like George Michael and Richard Marx.
I’d love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary to see the need that theater came out of, in the first place. I think we could probably all learn a bit from that.
Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have – it’s usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.
The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.
Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That’s how we’ll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
I play to be happy in the first place and then to help my colleagues and my team the best way I can, with the best football.
The counterweight to the dominion of evil can consist in the first place only in the divine-human love of Jesus Christ that is always greater than any possible power of evil.
There is always something that you will take away from each project. There definitely has to be something that you have said yes to in the first place. In some projects, it’s the freedom to express yourself more; in some, it’s a bigger sense of camaraderie, and somewhere, it’s the money that is great.
I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That’s where my heart was at.
Neurologically, I’m a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I’m sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.
Don’t paint a nasty picture of your exes. We’ll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.
I had a slight hope the phrase ‘spark joy’ might become popular, as it was the keyword that I wanted to put forward in the first place.
Most parents don’t want their kids to have smartphones in the first place. But parents worry about the social stigma of their child being the only one without a phone.
I wanted people to know that my grandmother was the reason why I did comedy in the first place. She pushed me to really get out there and pursue my dreams.
You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there’s no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn’t create the box in the first place.
You might say those who can’t repay their student debts shouldn’t have borrowed in the first place. But they had no way of knowing just how bad the jobs market would become.
Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay – everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don’t want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.
The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.
There are some songs that don’t belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people’s songs, you know. That’s why they’re written in the first place.
It’s far from clear that restoring Christian social authority is an appropriate aim of politics in the first place.
Every penny we spend comes from the taxpayer. We thus owe it to the taxpayer to work as hard managing that money wisely as the taxpayer must do to earn it in the first place.
People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don’t get cut off.
Providing free access to research papers on websites like Sci-Hub breaks so-called copyright law that was made to taboo free distribution of information on the Internet. That includes music, movies, documentaries, books, and research articles. Not everyone agrees that copyright law should exist in the first place.
It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a new institution; or even give any authority to the state governments to establish it as a new institution. The greatest sticklers for slavery do not claim this.
Essence has been home for so many of us for so many years. I always say that Essence was the first place that I felt I was a pretty black girl.
I know I haven’t said a lot of things I’m quoted as saying in the papers. It makes me wonder why I brought up the recovery story in the first place.
The thought about changing my genre of music does cross my mind, but then I remember why I started making music in the first place or why people started liking my kind of music.
If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don’t work. They don’t help you understand why you’re eating more than your body wanted in the first place.
I hate raising money. It diverts you from what your real task is: to be a representative. You’re diverted into preservation when you really want to spend your time and energy making a better state and a better country – which is the reason you ran in the first place.
I’ve never been disappointed by politicians. I’ve never invested that much in them in the first place.
Sometimes we all gain this elitist status mentally that inhibits us from being the kid that got you there in the first place, and I never want to inhibit that youthful demeanor. I think it’s a very big part of success.
‘Little Fish’ has reminded me why I fell in love with acting in the first place.
Hopefully, more Americans will also come to know the Donald Trump I know – caring, compassionate, and delivering justice with humanity for all Americans, especially those who were wrongly punished in the first place.
Well yes I think laughter is joyous, laughter is crucial. I think thats why I love comedy and thats why Im in comedy in the first place.
As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.
I never wanted to be a fighter in the first place.
I still can’t believe I’m a professional wrestler in the first place. That hasn’t sunk in yet. I’m sure I’ll look back when I’m 50 or 60, if I make it that far, and think about everything that’s happened.
We are the only alive creatures that are mortals; the animals are immortal, which is why they live stupidly. We are the only creatures that know that we will die, but that is a gift. It’s important because we know we have to take advantage and squeeze life and understand why we’re here in the first place.
We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.
Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you’d better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That’s why He gives them to us in the first place.
We in Nigeria have seen just how difficult it is to get back stolen assets from the international financial system, such as banks that ought not have received those funds in the first place if even the most routine questions were asked.
I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don’t recognize faces, so I’m sure it’s what drove me to portraits in the first place.
You have to work really hard to be first place in life.
The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark, secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
When you taste first place, if you then go and finish fourth, you will be disappointed.
Sometimes I get really down on myself for not having the exact career I want, but it’s ok as long as you know what you want and you’re going towards that. Accept it’s going to be a different path than you thought in the first place.
I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That’s what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place.
