Priorities Quotes - Page 15

• There was a time there when I thought going out was so fun. I don't know how it happens, but suddenly that's not a priority anymore.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Fun, Going Out, Know How

  "New Again: Lisa Kudrow". Interview with Sara Switzer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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• I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.

  David Brooks

  Block, Cutting, Thinking

  "Shields and Brooks on Netanyahu’s election provocation, human trafficking holdup". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2015.

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• I think our legal system needs to be developed. Cases of citizens who are detained and then have to wait much too long for a trial - that is scary, for everyone. When someone commits a crime he needs to be charged quickly. Why does this take so long in many cases? I don't know. Is it because our legal system is still rudimentary? China has promised to modernize its legal system. This has high priority.

  Zhang Xin

  Thinking, Long, Waiting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.

  Pam Houston

  Teaching, Writing, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.

  Amartya Sen

  Needs, Unjust, Matter

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• The other problem is that the priority of many soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan is operational security: not getting killed. Now that is a very valid priority, but it has to be balanced against many other priorities, especially not killing too many locals in the process.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  Iraq, Soldier, Problem

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My routine is really based around my kids, and I try not to hold myself to a schedule, because it is always changing. What has been the most influential thing to help me keep my center is to set priorities and stick to them.

  Trista Sutter

  Kids, Trying, Routine

  "Trista Sutter from The Bachelorette: Spreading the Gift of Gratitude". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• And you can really see in all of these issues that are priorities for Eleanor Roosevelt, where the compromises are painful, the compromises are hard, and the difficulties between them really begin to loom very large by 1936, by 1938.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Issues, Compromise, Painful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Most major domestic programs got more money this year, and they're used to reflect the priorities of the upcoming year. One good example is, the Secret Service is getting $268 extra dollars because it's a presidential election year and the agency's going to be under more demands.

  Susan Davis

  Agency, Years, Presidential

  "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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• The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It was shocking to find a parallel history to that - a bunch of Americans with very different priorities. I stumbled on to these people, and then became completely fixated on them. The question that drove me was: how did these reasonable people adopt these extremely unreasonable ideas?

  Christine Jennings

  Ideas, People, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As long as a certain problem primarily affects a different country, in this case Italy, one might not put it at the very top of one's list of priorities.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Long, Different

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am running for president as a Democrat. And if elected, not only do I hope to bring forth a major change in national priorities, but let me be frank, I do want to see major changes in the Democratic Party.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Party, President

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• We obviously talk about immigration, but that's not the number one priority for - at least that I've seen with the Latino demographic. And we have not seen that as polling as the number one issue either.

  Lucy Flores

  Numbers, Issues, Immigration

  "Voter Diversity Expected To Play A Role In Nevada's Democratic Caucuses". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

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• Once you demonstrate to your team that you put them on the same plane of priority as yourself, you will create an environment, and a culture that will make your entire organization flourish.

  Kevin Allen

  Team, Organization, Culture

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Veterans get priority in the training room and better parking, but there is not a whole lot of difference in terms of how they're treated in the competition for playing time. To me it doesn't matter if a guy is a 10-year veteran or a rookie. If the rookie is better, he finds his way onto the field.

  Brendan Daly

  Years, Differences, Guy

  Source: content.time.com

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• Love was really a high priority. You could drive up this road and there'd be open doors. You could actually walk in as a stranger and they'd invite you for a meal.

  Linda Perhacs

  Doors, Meals, Stranger

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2014.

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• My priorities now a a musician are so different now than they were as a kid. Everyone wants to be a rock star, and I wanted that too; I wanted to be on magazines and be running around the world and having all the fun.

  Blake Judd

  Running, Stars, Fun

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education. She always said, "Acting is a privilege not a priority. Education is the priority. If you're not bringing home As and Bs, you can't go on the audition."

  Aldis Hodge

  Mom, Home, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you have a programmer-founded company it often gets really techy, if you have a producer or a business-person, it all really sets the flavor of the company, just the priorities and the way you deal with everything.

  Tim Schafer

  Flavor, Way, Producers

  "Some Real Talk With Tim Schafer". "Kotaku Splitscreen" with Kirk Hamilton, Jason Schreier, www.kotaku.com.au. March 11, 2016.

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• We're too passive. We're feeding on too much rubbish and I think we should strive to just shrug away that comfort zone and be able to get the most of each one of us, which means restructuring the way we deal with time and the priorities we have in life, so being what we want to be I think should be something that we should keep in mind.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Mean, Thinking, Mind

  "Big Think Interview With Ingrid Betancourt". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 19, 2010.

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• To the extent I can, I try to maintain a laser focus on what needs to get done from a priority standpoint. And not just from an urgency standpoint, but from a value-added standpoint. So where can I add the most value? Where is my time best spent?

  Ivanka Trump

  Focus, Trying, Add

  "Ivanka Trump describes her life as the daughter of a potential US president, running the Trump empire, and building her own brand". Interview with Rachel Gillett, www.businessinsider.com. March 17, 2016.

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• We don't hear our president [Barack Obama] talking about the need for high-quality jobs for everybody, giving it priority, not just giving a speech in Detroit. That's fine, but speaking to Tim Geithner, speaking to Larry Summers. When are you going to make jobs, jobs, jobs a priority rather than Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street a priority? That's what I'm concerned about.

  Cornel West

  Summer, Jobs, Wall

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• We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

  Cornel West

  Children, People, Vision

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• I pick what are my priorities and I limit those priorities to less than five in my life and really in those particular areas put in the energy to try to make good choices.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Choices, Trying, Limits

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now?

  Alan Lakein

  Inspirational, Focus, Use

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