#first of all

First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#consideration #first #first of all #i #make

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#first of all #illusion #pleasures

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#farmer #first #first of all #good #him

I want to get an handful of spare basses to use first of all if mine breaks, and second, to learn some things about aspects of basses that I like, so Paul can build those aspects into it. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#aspects #breaks #build #first #first of all

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#enforcing #feet #fire #first #first of all

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#arts #band #big #big band #cal

We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all. ↗

— Rafik Hariri

#country #first #first of all #need #restore

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#first #first of all #forget #government #i

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#anything #case #christians #defines #design

You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#first of all #good #later #maybe #sad