I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I’m the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister. – Yitzhak Rabin
Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight. – Valerie Trierweiler
Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn’t explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place. – William A. Dembski
I had finished the first draft of ‘Life As We Knew It’ before Katrina hit, and it was startling to see things I wrote about actually happening in the real world. – Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Lockheed Skunk Works, led by Kelly Johnson, was responsible for its Advanced Development Projects – everything from the P-80, the first U.S. jet fighter plane, to the U-2 and A-12 spy planes. – Steve Blank
I think ‘Slumdog’ was probably the first big film that happened in India, but even that seemed like a one-off thing. – Tena Desae
My grandfather built my first hoop. It was a peach basket up against a tree, and we played in the dirt. I couldn’t have been more than 6 when he put it up, and I just started playing. – Tyson Chandler
Stage work, that’s all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson’s was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes. – Sasha Alexander
The Steve Allen Sunday night show had the right to two options after my first performance. – Shelley Berman
But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA. – Umberto Guidoni
When I first started buying shoes with my own money, I would always get them from eBay. I used to hack my mum’s account, and suddenly these white cowboy leather boots would arrive. – Suki Waterhouse
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. – Thucydides
When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it. – Trisha Yearwood
When I was writing ‘Shotgun,’ it’s one of the first songs that’s come to me as an image. – Valerie June
My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with ‘Crank That,’ and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway. – Soulja Boy
‘Do the Right Thing’ was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations. – Spike Lee
I’ve always been interested in the camera and the effects of it – that’s what drew me to film in the first place. – Sam Raimi
At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really. – Viggo Mortensen
This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, ‘When The Lion Feeds.’ back in 1964, is so rare it can fetch several thousand pounds at auction. I always wanted to be an author, and I decided to write about what I knew. – Wilbur Smith
The first thing I ask when I’m offered a part is, Who’s the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles. – Swoosie Kurtz
Yes, in fact, it’s hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea. – Tim LaHaye
Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as ‘The Pacific’. – Steven Spielberg
Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics. – Willard Boyle
I’ll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs. – Sidney Crosby
If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination. – Sushant Singh Rajput
