#the first thing

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#destroy #done #first #first thing #matter

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#establish #excesses #far #first #first thing

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#born #days #did #eight #engagement

The first thing I do is lay out that melody and figure out how it has to hold here and then finish to land here, because you know in advance you're going to want the melody to catch four things in the action. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#advance #because #catch #figure #finish

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#did #ever #first #first thing #got

When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#appetite #before #chance #chef #cook

I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#blindfolded #chef #chefs #come #completely

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#deal #first #first thing #issues #look

But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#first #first thing #i #proud #really

What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#away #because #being #being afraid #down