Prime Quotes - Page 12

• 'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

  Louise Mensch

  Kids, Fiction, Abel

  "Anything but a kept woman" by Neasa MacErlean, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2001.

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• Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example of this. Instead of choosing to acquire the land, the State asked the private parties to negotiate with the landowners directly. The State merely acted as an arbitrator.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Party, Mean, Airports

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• Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can't get back to. I don't even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Thinking, Past

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• Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Beautiful, Christian, Heart

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• The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos.

  William Hartung

  Art, Leader, President

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• Our focus is on the forward end of things: the customer and what does he want to do? If you're buying underwear and household items ladders and everything else - I buy all sorts of stuff on Amazon Prime - why shouldn't I buy this? Any legal document, contract or otherwise, that prevents me from doing that, I don't want to be a part of.

  Gerry Lopez

  Focus, Ladders, Want

  Source: deadline.com

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• Why shouldn't people be able to buy movie tickets on Amazon? Or Google or Flixster, or IMDb? I don't care who you have a relashionship with. This isn't about Fandango or MovieTickets. This is about you. Where do you buy stuff? Are you an Amazon Prime member? Then I want to be on Amazon Prime. Are you a Yahoo guy? Then I want to sell on Yahoo. Are you a Google guy? Then I want to sell tickets on Google.

  Gerry Lopez

  People, Guy, Google

  Source: deadline.com

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• I'm 81 and I'm in the prime of my life.

  Rita Moreno

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• At home, Danes try to resolve their problems amicably so it's just surreal to see these violent pictures on TV. But as the prime minister, I can't be controlled by my emotions.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Home, Trying, Tvs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Only here [in the Center] a new union can occur, as the Mysterious Pass is the ideal space and time to experience the interpenetrating fluctuations of Yin and Yang. The Mysterious Pass is therefore the primordial Chaos (hundun) containing the germ of life-the pre-cosmic sparkle of Original Yang and Original Yin-which is the prime mover and the materia prima of the alchemical work.

  Monica Esposito

  Space, Yang, Unions

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• Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.

  Adam Nevill

  Cutting, Men, Compassion

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• Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in 'The Iron Lady.'

  Sasha Frere-Jones

  Iron, Ministers, Convincing

  "Screen Shot" by Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I will protect your tax money! It won't be spent on Prime Minister and Governor houses. InshALLAH the day PTI government comes in power these walls of governor houses will be brought down. We will break these walls and make libraries and playgrounds for the public to use

  Imran Khan

  Wall, Government, House

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• We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.

  Stephen Fry

  Artist, Hands, Talking

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• Make use of time, let not advantage slip;
  Beauty within itself should not be wasted:
  Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
  Rot and consume themselves in little time.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Flower, Use

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

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• This is an issue that the Prime Minister put on the COAG agenda. First of all, it is something that would only apply in an extreme case where the service by a terrorist of a sentence of imprisonment had in no way curbed their desire or their intention to commit terrorist offences in the community, so that this is a - would be a public safety measure. The second point I'd make to you is that this is not unknown to the law.

  George Brandis

  Law, Issues, Safety

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend. All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II. Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?

  Adam Hochschild

  War, Years, Museums

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.

  George Roche III

  Leadership, Ideas, Shapes

  "A World Without Heroes: The Modern Tragedy". Book by George Roche III, 1987.

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• I pitched Jay Hunt the opening scene (prime minister, middle of the night, he's woken up...). She paused, and then she laughed. She was very intrigued and all that, and then she said, "Does it have to be a pig?" So we went through various options: Could it be a supermarket frozen chicken? A giant wheel of cheese? A pig seemed just the right level of absurd, but then when he walks in and there's actually a pig there, it's awful.

  Charlie Brooker

  Night, Pigs, Cheese

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• In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Divorce, Past

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false

  Tony Benn

  Queens, Advice, Crowns

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• No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

  Tony Benn

  Hands, President, Doe

  Tony Benn, Chris Mullin (1979). “Arguments for socialism”, Jonathan Cape

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  Show source

• I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister this century. When the euphoria surrounding her departure subsides you will find that in a year or two's time there will not be a Tory who admits ever supporting her. People in the street will say, thank God she's gone

  Tony Benn

  Country, Thinking, Years

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• Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.

  Sharon Olds

  Thinking, Quality, Steps

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• But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require a cause. And even if they did, why would the Prime Mover need to be a supernatural anthropomorphic deity such as the Judeo - Christian God? Why could it not just as well be the material universe itself?

  Victor J. Stenger

  Christian, Religion, Doe

  Victor J. Stenger (1990). “Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses”

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