- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
First Quotes
On beginnings, and what a 'first' really changes.
The quotes gathered here treat 'first' loosely: a rookie athlete crediting the teammates who set the tone early, a filmmaker's take on what should scare an audience right away, and a physicist weighing what can and can't be known first. If early relationships resonate, see our First Love.
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- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first airplane trip was to Paris. I had this fantasy that I would become a model, and I did!
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was Hillary in '08. I love Obama, but I was Hillary first, so I was happy to be back there with her again.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chris Boardman was my first teammate and my first roommate. I saw him finish his career with an hour record and thought, 'Yeh, what a way to go out!'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to the U.S. based on my speaking skills, it would be very low.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020