The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.
When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.
An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with him. My first thought was: How could I not work with Elmer, when I had the chance? Simply put, he's the best there is-the very best.
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.
Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.
I just grew up with it [The Simpsons]. The first season came on when I was 5, 6 years old, and the show evolved as I was growing up and got funnier and funnier and, by the time I was in 12th grade, they were at their funniest.
One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words.
Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture.
This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.
The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
First, I charge a retainer; then I charge a reminder; next I charge a refresher; and then I charge a finisher.
We're now on the precipice of having a potentially much better economy, but the last thing we need to do is to go back to the policies that failed us in the first place.
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.