#foremost

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. ↗

— Juan Williams

#airplane #am #attacks #bigoted #dressed

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that. ↗

— William Green

#building #doing #first #foremost #i

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#english #find #first #foremost #i

Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago? ↗

— Horst Koehler

#believe #brought #cooperation #dared #decided

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole. ↗

— Peter Krause

#foremost #hurts #individual #man #mistake

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important. ↗

— Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#first #foremost #i #important #love

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters. ↗

— David Lean

#first #foremost #i #interested #story

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost. ↗

— Alicia Machado

#experiences #expressing #feelings #first #foremost

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. ↗

— Jack Brickhouse

#dry #entertainment #first #foremost #i

The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money. ↗

— Steve Brown

#business #first #foremost #fun #money