Prime Quotes - Page 20

• We vote to leave, we get rid of this Prime Minister - dishonest Dave [Cameron] - and we get a better Prime Minister.

  Nigel Farage

  Vote, Dave, Ministers

  "EU referendum campaign recap: David Cameron faces down angry audience member at Brexit debate" by Mikey Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. June 10, 2016.

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• We were brought up in a world which was based on Aristotle. Science-wise and everything, that's really quite exciting and you learn a lot. There was one problem: there were parallel realities. And in a parallel reality, there's always one reality that's the prime and the second is always a secondary. And everything's a reflection of something else.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Wise, Reflection, Reality

  Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

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• At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.

  Noel Whittaker

  Family, Home, Learning

  Noel Whittaker (2011). “Making Money Made Simple”, p.231, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You've got the Wall Street situation, the sub-prime situation. You've got a black president. We've got wars. We've got unemployment. But the music doesn't reflect that. And I challenge anybody to show me a music that's on the radio that reflects that.

  Ice T

  Wall, War, Challenges

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• Gamal Abdal Nasser, the nationalist leader of Egypt, was described by British Prime Minister Anthony Eden as an Egyptian Hitler. Then it carried on like that. Saddam Hussein became Hitler when he was no longer a friend of the West. Then Milosevic became Hitler.

  Tariq Ali

  Egypt, Eden, Leader

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• First of all, there's no separation of church and state in the Islamic world. They're one and the same. And so when President Bush or Senator Kerry or Prime Minister Blair says, "Look, adopt our secular democracy, look at how good we've done. We have a wonderful level of standard of living for our people," what many Muslims hear is, "Turn your back on God and follow what men say."

  Michael Scheuer

  Islamic, Men, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm always interested in something that Helen Mirren is doing. I thought her series Prime Suspect was unbelievable. I think she might be my favorite actress.

  Julie Halston

  Thinking, Might, Actresses

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime. According to some ancient manuscripts 9 is not a prime number, but beyond the distant horizon of the oceans, in the New World that I am going to discover, there are surely lots of them.

  Christopher Columbus

  Ocean, Numbers, Horizon

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• When I became Prime Minister, I looked back on what was done before – what were the policies and actions before – and I thought that I need to be critical if I’m going to do anything at all.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Needs, Done, Action

  "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.

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• In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.

  John Diefenbaker

  Leadership, Canada, Ministers

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• For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.

  Wole Soyinka

  Justice, Humanity, Conditions

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• Whoever the next prime minister of this country will be, it will be a female prime minister and a female prime minister who has formidable skills and I know whichever one of the two wins they will lead this country well.

  Michael Gove

  Country, Winning, Skills

  "Conservative leadership: Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom in battle to be prime minister after Michael Gove eliminated from contest" by Danny Boyle, Ben Riley-Smith, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 7, 2016.

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• The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

  Regis Debray

  Leadership, Sacrifice, Example

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• I've got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I'm starting to enter my prime.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Thinking, Long

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• For the second time in history the Conservatives will have a female prime minster, proving that we are not just the greatest but the most progressive party in Britain.

  Andrea Leadsom

  Party, Female, Progressive

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• A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

  William Wordsworth

  Cheerful, Delight, Spirit

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.186

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• I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Israel, Years, Here I Am

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• So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.

  Will Self

  Ministers, Bigs, Deals

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• I would describe that [friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras] as a utilitarian friendship. At the time, his country was facing the prospect of leaving the euro zone and many Greeks felt abandoned by Europe. In such a situation, it seemed appropriate to me to present myself as a friend to Greece. It had to do with the country's dignity.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Country, Europe, Leaving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Two, Luck, Universe

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• Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

  Aeschylus

  Done, Firsts, Causes

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.72, University of Chicago Press

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• In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Greek, Example, Different

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.

  John F. Kennedy

  Decision, Add, Mobility

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.74, Best Books on

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• These are human beings with real lives and the uncertainty and the fear that any of them face right now could be ended at a stroke if we had all the candidates for prime minister simply say that the right to remain here is not in question and I call again upon Theresa May and on the current prime minster to do that. That would be the humane thing to do and I even at this stage hope that that's a direction they will take.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Real, Would Be, May

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.

  Elio Di Rupo

  Jobs, Government, Two

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