#first of all

First of all, I don't like to speak about austerity. I'd prefer to speak of fiscal discipline. Fiscal discipline, in the end, amounts to austerity if it is not accompanied by other policies. ↗

— Mario Monti

#accompanied #austerity #discipline #end #first

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer. ↗

— Robert Moog

#first of all #i #make #music #musician

First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#anyone #countries #first #first of all #i

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#army #before #first #first of all #i

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#breadth #claims #commitment #contract #declaration

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion. ↗

— Robert Redford

#business #every #failures #first #first of all

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy. ↗

— Milos Forman

#believe #comedy #defend #doing #first

First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife. ↗

— Allan Houston

#child #comes #else #everything #first

When you do voiceover it's such a fun job to be able to do. First of all, you can do it in your pajamas and you don't have to get dressed up for it. ↗

— Kelly Hu

#dressed #first #first of all #fun #get

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.' ↗

— Bobby Hull

#almost #commissioner #deja #deja vu #enough