All Quotes

First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.
‐‐ Safra A. Catz

First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the biggest job-killer in this country. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work, have lost their health insurance, have lost their doctors, have seen their premiums skyrocket.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.
‐‐ Anatoly Karpov

First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated.
‐‐ Mitchell Reiss

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
‐‐ Samuel P. Huntington

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.
‐‐ Nicolaus Copernicus

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.
‐‐ Julie Nixon Eisenhower

First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for 'The Passion of the Christ'? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff.
‐‐ Rob Schneider

First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.
‐‐ Mike Krzyzewski

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.
‐‐ Spike Lee

First of all, when I was making the decision, I never thought that Pittsburgh fans would want me back. Every time I played there, they were booing me every time I touched the puck. I didn't think it would be such a big deal that I didn't sign with Pittsburgh.
‐‐ Jaromir Jagr

First of all, when you live in a country like Canada, it's quite different from America in the sense that it's very tied to traditions that were born in Britain.
‐‐ Geddy Lee

First of all when you're a mommy like you like the consistency of being on a show like that's just peace of mind, I know I have financial, you know stability.
‐‐ Nia Long

First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined.
‐‐ Milos Forman

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
‐‐ Kathy Acker

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise that - and it's the fundamental thing - the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn't believe in God lies in obeying one's conscience.
‐‐ Pope Francis

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
‐‐ David McCullough

First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.
‐‐ Roger Daltrey

First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.
‐‐ Charles S. Dutton

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.
‐‐ Nina Blackwood

First of all, you want to do the soaking with almost all of the larger beans because that will take care of the gas, and second of all... they want to be seasoned and flavored.
‐‐ Crescent Dragonwagon

First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it's called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?
‐‐ Joe Torre

First off, from reading the script and knowing that I was going to be apart of it, I'm a huge 'Wizard of Oz' fan so to be involved in something that was connected to the original books was really exciting for me and it was very different than anything I had ever worked on before.
‐‐ Kathleen Robertson

First off, I could never become a doctor. Blood? Even the fake blood on 'American Horror Story,' I'm kind of ready to hurl.
‐‐ Taissa Farmiga

First off, I don't do self-deprecation comedy based on being fat. I would always talk about it honestly. Secondly, I don't care how much I weigh.
‐‐ Jeff Garlin

First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan.
‐‐ Matthew Sweet

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
‐‐ Alexei Sayle

First off, I love Woody Allen. His early movies, like 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' are incredible. I also love anything by Billy Wilder, Ron Howard and John Hughes. I really grew up on the Hughes films, which are the ones I go back and watch all the time, just to see how they were put together.
‐‐ Tim Story

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.
‐‐ Christopher Shays

First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
‐‐ Dennis Kucinich

First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
‐‐ LaToya London

First off let me say, I've wanted to be an actress since I was a little girl.
‐‐ Paula Patton

First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
‐‐ Adam McKay

First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.
‐‐ Peter DeFazio

First off, the PS2 and PSP can play against each other online.
‐‐ Tim Page

First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot.
‐‐ Christopher Shays

First off, you can't replace Bobby Hatfield. I was just blessed to be able to sing with maybe the greatest singer in the world as a first tenor.
‐‐ Bill Medley

First, one scrambles for wealth. Then, one luxuriates in mocking the effeteness that comes with it.
‐‐ Euny Hong

First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server.
‐‐ John W. Thompson

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
‐‐ Jack L. Chalker

First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world quite intimately. So it suits a story focused on one character's personal journey. However, first person shuts out insights into other characters.
‐‐ Juliet Marillier

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
‐‐ James McBride

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
‐‐ Anne Rice

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?
‐‐ Kathryn Schulz

First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.'
‐‐ Miles Teller

First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.
‐‐ Brian Mulroney

First published in 1984 when I was nothing more than sticks of bone at seven, 'Dragons of Autumn Twilight' began what would be one of the icons of my grunge-stained disenchanted childhood.
‐‐ Ben Peek

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
‐‐ Andre Weil

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
‐‐ Leo Rosten