Prime Quotes - Page 8

• The tape measure doesn't lie. Get that tape measure out and put it on your hips and your waist. Keep checking it. And keep exercising and cutting those calories down until that tape measure gets close to where you were in your prime.

  Jack LaLanne

  Lying, Cutting, Exercise

  Source: billphillipsnews.com

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• My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's always been my prime object in comics.

  Jack Kirby

  Names, Evil, Monsters

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• You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

  John Howard

  Leadership, Australia, People

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• The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.

  Voltaire

  Fate, Digestion, Ministers

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• In my view, the ideal prime minister is patient, hard-working, compassionate and has a clear vision, driven by the fair go.

  Julia Gillard

  Hard Work, Views, Vision

  "Julia Gillard: 20 people, 20 questions". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2013.

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• Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.

  Chris Hayes

  Sadness, Successful, Emotional

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• I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

  V. P. Singh

  Motivational, Would Be, Disaster

  V. P. Singh's remarks in the year the Janata Dal was formed, 1988.

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• I have always wanted to do daytime television, but past handlers and agents had steered me away from it because they would say to me, "Darius, you have already passed that mark in your career. You have done prime time and feature films and continue to go upward," and I go, "Are you kidding me?".

  Darius McCrary

  Past, Careers, Done

  "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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• So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.

  Sam Altman

  Momentum

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• I try to think up material that might apply to the subjects they are studying. How many mitochondria does it take to power a cell? One. Because mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Not ready for prime time, that one.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  Mike Birbiglia (2012). “Sleepwalk with Me: And Other Painfully True Stories”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• I make my decisions and my judgments not based on what a prime minister of another country says, but based on what my principles tell me... how may DNA guides me.

  Steve Israel

  Country, Dna, Decision

  "Rep. Steve Israel Condemns Use Of Iran Nuclear Deal As A 'Cheap, Partisan Stunt'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. Rep. Steve Israel Condemns Use Of Iran Nuclear Deal As A 'Cheap, Partisan Stunt'.

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• The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.

  William James

  Teacher, Stuff, Behavior

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.57, Nuvision Pubns

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• I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me.

  Stephen King

  Noon, Late, Ifs

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• I think most presidents are amazed at the overwhelming responsibility they have when they enter office and the tremendous amount of work there is. See, a modern president has far more responsibility than a president years ago. And if I were rewriting the Constitution, I would suggest a president be more like a monarch and then have a prime minister under him.

  Billy Graham

  Responsibility, Thinking, Years

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

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• The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

  Charlton Heston

  Art, Motivation, Film

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1987.

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• The thing that is most important is to feel like you're at the front of the line, to be prime or primer. I definitely never wanted to say that in the films, but that's where it comes from.

  Shane Carruth

  Important, Lines, Film

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question.

  W. C. Sellar

  Years, History, Trying

  1066 and All That ch. 57 (1930). Coauthored with R. J. Yeatman.

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• I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

  Gordon Strachan

  Soccer, Football, Thinking

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• Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

  Ben Stein

  Christian, Religious, Islands

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• Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Religious, Past

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• No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Groups

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• The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?

  Rex Murphy

  Horse, Thinking, Waiting

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• The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.

  Carl Pomerance

  Science, Numbers, Proud

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• My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner."

  Daniel Goldston

  Science, Media, Numbers

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• When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Churchill. At last, his unique qualities were brought to bear on a supreme challenge, and with his unshakable optimism, his heroic vision, and above all, his splendid speeches, Churchill roused the spirit of the British people.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Unique, Government, People

  Gretchen Rubin (2004). “Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life”, p.17, Random House

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