I trained for about a year before I had my first amateur fight. I won by knockout, and then, for my second fight, the guy didn’t even show up. – Stipe Miocic
On September 11, 2001, Russia’s then-president, Vladimir Putin, called U.S. President George W. Bush – making Putin the first international leader to speak with Bush after the attacks. – Sergei Lavrov
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. – Stuart Chase
We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out. – Tommy Chong
I miss the personalization that Vegas was – there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names. – Wayne Newton
It’s easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious. – Suzanne Fields
I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn’t really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together. – Sydney Wayser
Mehmet was the first sultan, and one of the first Muslims anywhere, to defy religious tradition by allowing his portrait to be made. – Stephen Kinzer
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. – Theresa May
When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn’t get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that. – Stephen Cole Kleene
I was absolutely blown away when I first talked to Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan at how ambitious they wanted ‘Westworld’ to be in looking at the drives that are leading human beings over the cliff of existence. – Thandie Newton
I once walked through an exhibit in a large American museum that displayed First Nations artifacts in old dioramas, with mannequins that hadn’t been changed since the 19th century. – Susanna Kearsley
I was once hired to write a column for ‘The Guardian’ and then got fired before I’d submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I’ve written at least one piece for them before firing me. – Toby Young
First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone. – Steve Jobs
The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received. – Stephen Cole Kleene
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place – which was bigger than it is now – was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans. – Yahya Jammeh
There’s a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage – every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train. – Walter Murch
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement. – Salvatore Quasimodo
When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That’s what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University. – Tamara Tunie
When I first watched Bette Davis in ‘All About Eve’, I was struck by how much I felt that she is Margo Channing and that she’s Bette Davis, where she was able to do both, where you’re like, ‘What an icon.’ – Tavi Gevinson
As far as I’m concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca. – Tom Peters
The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen’s ‘Vibez,’ it was used in Drake’s ‘0-100’ as a sample. – Yuna
When I first played at the Apollo, the owner didn’t even know who Sharon Jones was. The Apollo had never seen so many white people coming uptown. – Sharon Jones
Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn’t pay off. – Warren Zevon
