#the first thing

Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you. ↗

— Ice T

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My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#born #days #did #eight #engagement

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

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In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do. ↗

— Renny Harlin

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The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#first thing #i #i see #obligation #peace

In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#apple ii #because #before #computer #did

I've been talking to certain wrestlers on the phone lately, and certain female wrestlers that were huge stars ten years ago, and the first thing I ask them is 'do you still want to work?' Do they want to talk, or do they want to wrestle or do something else in the business? ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#ask #been #business #certain #else

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists. ↗

— Craig Bruce

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I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#ambition #clicked #first #first thing #five

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

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