Primaries Quotes - Page 24

• Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible colours and, by multiplying these by two or four, I obtain a definite number of colour fields that I multiply yet again by two, etc. But the complete realization of this project demands a great deal of time and work.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Black And White, Two

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• I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a woman-identified and woman-directed sexuality and eroticism, as a way of breaking the grip of men on women's minds and women's bodies, of removing women from the chronic attachment to the primary situations of sexual and physical violence that is rained upon women by men, and as a way of promoting women's firm and reliable bonding against oppression. . . .

  Marilyn Frye

  Men, Long, Political

  Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr

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• Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Race, Differences

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• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well-known blues musicians.

  Walter Becker

  Player, People, Rock N Roll

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• One of the primary questions in a state-church arrangement is, 'which controls which?' . . . In Norway, for example, the liberal labor government has regularly angered Church officials by making controversial ministerial appointments against the wishes of the clergy. . . . These and other actions have strained the church-state relationship almost to the breaking point. As a result, some of the bishops have advocated disestablishment.

  Dan Barker

  Government, Point Break, Wish

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• The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.

  Lord David Cecil

  Appreciation, Effort, Literature

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• George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, Men, Names

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• I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

  John Grisham

  Pages Turning, Issues, Goal

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• Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

  Annie Baker

  Writing, Way

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• Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Organization, Risk, Development

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• I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

  Sydney Brenner

  School, Years, Two

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• The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.

  Walther Bothe

  Radiation, Complicated, Process

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• Just a few months ago in the Republican primary Mitt Romney said to his opponents, who he was crushing at the time, stop whining. And I think that's a good message for the Romney campaign. Instead of whining about what the Obama campaign is saying, why don't you just put the facts out there and let people decide rather than trying to hide them.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Crush, Thinking, People

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.theshowbuzz.com. July 15, 2012.

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• I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Rhode Island, Islands, Presidential

  Lincoln Chafee (2010). “Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President”, p.9, Macmillan

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• The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Inquiry, Philosopher, Logical

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• I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

  Nick Clegg

  Dad, Children, School

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• We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Country, Exercise, People

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• The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.

  Verity Stob

  Errors, Mind, Lap

  "Catch as Catch Can". www.theregister.co.uk. January 11, 2006.

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• The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Science, Technology, Firsts

  "Charles Dickens". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1906.

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• We should never lose sight of the underlying essence of a market-a place where buyers and sellers come together. Every other feature-whether crafted by tradition or technology-exists only to serve that primary purpose.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Business, Technology, Sight

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• My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?

  Colin Firth

  Party, Substance, Actors

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• You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.

  Judd Gregg

  Agency, Safety, Purpose

  "Financial Regulatory Reform: Washington 'Going Stupid' Again?". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2010.

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• My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

  Sue Grafton

  Fall, Decision, Merit

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• I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Passion, Writing, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, something just went 'click' inside me. Suddenly I wasn't shy anymore. Instead I felt confident and happy. I can remember the enormous sense of relief it gave me. I loved the feeling of making people laugh.

  Sally Hawkins

  School, Play, People

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