#the first thing

I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

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I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

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Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done. ↗

— Angus Young

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In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday. ↗

— Edward Albert

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So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out. ↗

— James Stockdale

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I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

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