Top 44 First Things Quotes

When I moved back to Cumbria, one of the first things I did was locate a decent bookshop.

Real estate was one of the first things I was doing. I kinda like mistakenly fell into that. I bought a house early in my career, and in my head, it was like, if everything goes wrong, I own this one house, you know… As I started doing concerts and more concerts, I started buying more houses.

When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.

One of the first things that helped me to understand certain things about writing was seeing ‘The Iceman Cometh’ in the Village when I was a kid, before I ever became a newspaperman, and realizing that the world I knew could also be the subject of some amazing stuff.

One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation.

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera’s ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was played at the opera. I really like the relationship between the music and the choreography.

I remember when I interviewed at MSNBC, one of the first things they said to me was, ‘In your tapes, you had a mustache, right?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I recently took it off.’ I said, ‘If you hire me, you get to decide if you want it or not.’ They said, ‘No, no, we’re fine with it now.’

One of the first things President Trump did to stimulate the economy was to remove harmful regulations that left our small banks, energy companies and other businesses treading water to stay afloat.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

If you talk to anybody, among the first things you’ll hear is, ‘Steve Carell is the nicest guy in the world.’ And he is. ‘Steve Carell is the greatest guy to work with.’ And he is. But all of that belies other aspects that are as true with him.

When I sat down with Under Armour, one of the first things we talked about was how this can be bigger than just shoes, bigger than just basketball.

One of the first things that I tried doing in terms of taking action on a personal level was trying this campaign called meatless Mondays’ so one day a week I would try to adopt a plant-based diet.

One of the first things I learned from veteran teammates – as a minor league player in the Detroit Tigers organization – was that you do everything in your power to stay out of the training room. It’s a survival of the fittest thing.

Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There’s a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.

One of the first things that I found audiences related to me on outside of my identity was just my general cynical depressive worldview, which, surprisingly a lot of people share!

Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that’s really important to me; that’s one of the first things I look at when I say, ‘does it make sense to do a deal?’

One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, ‘Don’t judge the character.’

When people are busy, fitness and working out are the first things that people stop doing so we’ve got to be mindful of making time to do it.

Usually, one of the first things I think about when I’m developing a character is what they’re wearing. I mean, it sounds very cheesy and very actor-y, but it really does help me figure it out.

I remember when I told my parents that I wanted to be a filmmaker, and no longer was I planning to be a doctor, one of the first things my mom said to my dad was: ‘This is your fault. You watched too many movies.’

One of the first things people think of when they think of Native Americans is reservations. We didn’t have any idea what that was. We were just young kids growing up in normal blue-collar America.

I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week… First things first – that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.

One of the first things I want do when I start writing music for a film is to create its own sound world, its own music world.

My skin was really bad. Roxanne Rizzo’s products were the first things that really cleared it up.

When budget cuts happen – which has been happening a lot in this country – after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.

Not to sound cliche, but some of the first things that I bought were for my homies and my team: making sure the people that helped me and ensured my security and safety during my come-up, while I was broke, had the opportunity to be okay.

On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.

I always want to cut every single line, possibly, that is mine from the script. One of the first things I do on any script is to shred, shred and shred my lines.

After I was invited to take over the Selecao, one of the first things I did was to call Marcelo and Thiago Silva. I wanted to get a feel for the players and we did not mention what had gone on in the past, that is behind us.

One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville – the early things he used to do for Factory Records.

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can’t interview someone of that stature.

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

It’s amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.

One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control – say what they want to say, break structure.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, ‘You have to change something in the handbook.’

In life, it’s winning – when I go to the supermarket, and I go with a friend, I try to get through the door first. Things like that – everything in life is a competition for me.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed, and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them.

Get your dog spayed or neutered. That’s one of the first things that you should go and do.