My dad was an actor, so he would try and put me off and say, 'Come on, you've got to go to university first.'
Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.
My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.
When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!
You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.
At the most basic level, prioritizing design also represents a practical consideration. It's far easier to design first and engineer later.
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.
When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
Having a first single is such a great opportunity for any artist... I'm very appreciative of the support country radio's given 'Could It Be.'
Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.
If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.
I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.
I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.
We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
