#first

It's the twenty-first century. Arriving to find a bunch of old dudes in brown robes would be equally weird. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#robes #twenty-first-century #equality

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#back #end #enormity #face #first

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#came #close #distortions #experience #first

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#always #approval #children #continue #expect

When I first started out, I was a bad actor. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#bad #first #i #out #started

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#business #con #convention #decades #fantasy

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be. ↗

— Joe Manchin

#firsthand #how #i #know #waiting

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#andrew #claim #claimed #congress #constitutional

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#came #first #guys #i #much

I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye Boy', reached the Top 20. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#boy #bye #care #career #first