My mindset going into the game was not to let the side down in my first World Cup game.
"I have to be as hungry for this as my first world title fight because I know so much depends on it, " Calzaghe told BBC Sport.
My first introduction to the world of IT was back in the late eighties.
And on my first day in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, it happened to me with my BlackBerry Z10.
But even Anne Marie seemed happy enough after a while, and if prison was my first not entirely unpleasant exile from the world, then this was my second, and not once was I rec-ognized as the man who burned down the Emily Dickinson House, et cetera, and not once did I hear that voice, the voice inside me that asked, What else?
She was my Statue of Liberty, my guiding light, my first friend in a new world.
Like many in the business world, my first social network was LinkedIn.
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My first step into the professional world was over the threshold of a small PR agency (the biggest one in Houston) where I served as an intern.
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That was my first foray into the startup world.
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Throughout college and my first few years in the real world, I found a reason to move every single year.
But I'm going to write about my brother who digs rocks at a granite quarry, not my first brother who lives in the world of music.
"This was my first real attempt to break the world record, I knew I was good, I had trained hard, " added Rudisha, whose father Daniel won silver for Kenya in the 4x400m at the 1968 Mexico Olympics.
During my first few months on Facebook, I occasionally posted some of my articles on world politics, and Jim was quick to comment and debate.
However, the theories underpinning software programming were extremely dense, and the difficulty I had with learning and understanding code led to my first moment of realization: perhaps the world of computer science was not for me.
My first brother and my husband enjoyed a convivial time, talking about the elegant musical world and a journalist's life revolving around people.
My first big splash on the internet came in 2004 when I was one of the first 30 podcasters in the world, hand-coding my RSS feed and speaking timidly into a microphone, broadcasting intimate thoughts to a global audience.
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Since my first Prelim competition two years ago to the World Championships last summer it's been an absolute whirlwind but this is the ultimate.
"The first thing in my mind was how in the world Mr. Edwards could ask one more thing of us, " Young said of her thoughts at the time.
It was also very exciting, because for the first time, something from my end of the world -- you know, something from the left-of-the-dial end of the world that was previously relegated to college radio (made it big).
I've never regretted those first steps out of my comfort zone and into the world of diplomacy.
"Then, to my surprise, I discovered world music, which at first seemed very peculiar to me, " he said.
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The pictures bring to mind the work of Steve Pyke, whose portraits World War I veterans first came to my attention back in the mid-1990s when they were on show at the old headquarters of the Royal Photographic Society in Bath.
And at the back of my mind, I wanted to prove myself first in the commercial world.
The assertion by a handful of first-world biotech companies of property claims over my body is a repellent reminder of slavery.
Five cameras and as many years later, I invited the world to see scenes from my son's first years-because the story of Gibreel's early life is also the story of Bil'in's resistance.
But I think my biggest highlight was last year in Madrid when Alistair won the first World Cup he competed in after returning from injury.
A. My first trip to China was 1990, and that was in a world where there were virtually no cars at all on the road, and everybody had bicycles.
My chest wells up like a child visiting Disney World for the first time at the mere thought of seeing the covers come off the next generation of this iconic sports car and, better yet, hearing its sweet engine sing.
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My chest wells up like a child visiting Disney World for the first time at the mere thought of seeing the covers come off the next generation of this iconic American sports car and, better yet, hearing its sweet engine sing.
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