The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territory. But that's been that way ever since I was a little kid as long as I can remember. I grew up that way.
He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.
I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.
He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.
The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.
Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.
When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.