My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.
The First Amendment means everything to me.
Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.
First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
And once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.
When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.
Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.
My first solo was in church when I was five.