First of all, I want people to understand that I'm here to create for them. To create music for people so they'll know that I'm a source of love. And they can depend on my name.
‐‐ Brian Wilson
First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
‐‐ Gaines Adams
First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.
‐‐ John Carpenter
First of all, I wish I could grow a beard.
‐‐ John Hodgman
First of all, I would like to clear the air on one thing. Alison has slept with more men than Amanda; Sydney has slept with more men than Amanda; I think Matt has slept with more men than Amanda.
‐‐ Heather Locklear
First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.
‐‐ Aleksandr Lebed
First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
‐‐ Vint Cerf
First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody's face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process.
‐‐ George A. Romero
First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
‐‐ Patricia Cornwell
First of all it has never been the case that I have threatened people with expulsion or that I've threatened to throw people out of the Parliamentary Labour Party.
‐‐ Ron Davies
First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.
‐‐ Emanuel Swedenborg
First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.
‐‐ Russell Banks
First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.
‐‐ Anthony Michael Hall
First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.
‐‐ Dan Fouts
First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong.
‐‐ Steven Van Zandt
First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
‐‐ Bill Condon
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
‐‐ Barry Levinson
First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
‐‐ Claude Debussy
First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.
‐‐ Dorothy Day
First of all, let me just say what's interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say nasty things about you. From a global perspective, if politics get bad, you die, so let's just keep some perspective here.
‐‐ Marco Rubio
First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.
‐‐ Andre Agassi
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.
‐‐ Daniel Nathans
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
‐‐ Huston Smith
First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
‐‐ Beau Bridges
First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
‐‐ Jim DeMint
First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract.
‐‐ Rob Walton
First of all, pharmaceutical costs are the single fastest-growing part of our health care budget.
‐‐ John Kitzhaber
First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.
‐‐ Michelle Pfeiffer
First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
‐‐ Tea Leoni
First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
‐‐ Norman Schwarzkopf
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.
‐‐ Stephen Greenblatt
First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There's nothing wrong, per se, with tabloid stories.
‐‐ Errol Morris
First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.
‐‐ Amy Ryan
First of all, the American people are inundated with advertisement after advertisement of you buy, buy, buy. You've got to have the latest thing. The iPad 1 isn't any good anymore, you've got to have the iPad 2. The iPhone 4, now you've got to have iPhone 4S. Now you've got to have the 5b, now you've got to have the 6c.
‐‐ Michael Moore
First of all, the Big Bang wasn't very big. Second of all, there was no bang. Third, Big Bang Theory doesn't tell you what banged, when it banged, how it banged. It just said it did bang. So the Big Bang theory in some sense is a total misnomer.
‐‐ Michio Kaku
First of all, the idea that natural gas is better than coal is a lie, especially when it comes to fracking for natural gas. It is a lie that was bought into by a lot of Democrats and a lot of environmentalists because I think they wanted to have a win against something; against coal.
‐‐ Josh Fox
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
‐‐ Barbara Walters
First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.
‐‐ Ninette de Valois
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
‐‐ Carlos Santana
First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.
‐‐ Bud Grant
First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
‐‐ Frank McCourt
First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.
‐‐ Michael Beschloss
First of all there was a guy named Charles Nicholas, who used to do all of the inking that Jack and Simon didn't do. Simon used to do splashes and covers, but Charles Nicholas, after a while, did the inside of all of the stuff.
‐‐ Gil Kane
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.
‐‐ Stephen Greenblatt
First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.
‐‐ Jon Lovitz
First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.
‐‐ Milos Forman
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic
First of all, Vince McMahon doesn't argue - he tells you!
‐‐ Ric Flair
First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.
‐‐ Saxby Chambliss