#first thing

Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#across #ad #afraid #am #arm

Running was the first thing I discovered that I was any good at. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#discovered #first #first thing #good #i

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all. ↗

— James Brown

#first thing #got #hair #man #second

I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#between #bit #coffee #cup #cut

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#afterwards #contract #dinner #first #first thing

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. ↗

— Peggy Fleming

#first #first thing #love #never #please

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously. ↗

— Stephen King

#awesome #concept #consider #even #first

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#afghanistan #any #big #bigger #country

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy. ↗

— James Bovard

#back #cage #democracy #falling #first

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#arts #book #first #first thing #i