Paramount Quotes

• Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

  Wes Moore

  Fighting, Important, Finding Peace

  Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.168, Spiegel & Grau

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• How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Children, Innocence

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.171, Courier Corporation

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• Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Beauty, Important, Requirements

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

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• Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

  Joe Baca

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Paris

  “Manolo Blahnik spreads the love” by Dan Thawley, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Some people that work for Hot Pockets came to my Denver Paramount Theater show. They brought these hot pocket boxes the size of suit cases for me to sign. I wrote "these are WMD's" on the boxes. The HP people seem to have a good sense of humor about all of it.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Wmd, People, Pockets

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. May 21, 2007.

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• A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

  Tom Flores

  Life, Motivational Sports, Commitment

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• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

  Irving Berlin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Effort is the key, but direction and loyalty are paramount.

  Zig Ziglar

  Loyalty, Keys, Effort

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• Staying healthy and consistent is paramount.

  Shawn Johnson

  Fitness Motivational, Healthy, Consistent

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• It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Strong, Passion, Ambition

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• A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Responsibility

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ignorance, Order, Doubt

  Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.263, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

  Martin Puryear

  Ideas, Rawness, Chance

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• Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Art, Mean, Ideas

  Lucy R. Lippard (1973). “Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 ...”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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• There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what is the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their power, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and find all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of, such laws.

  Lysander Spooner

  Life, War, Law

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• Mothers, your relationship with your daughter is of paramount importance, and so is your example. How you love and honor her father, his priesthood, and his divine role will be reflected and perhaps amplified in your daughter’s attitudes and behavior.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Daughter, Mother, Attitude

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• Intelligence is of paramount importance to live life sensibly, because without intelligence, there is no clarity. And Clarity is intelligence everyone is capable of.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Live Life, Perception

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• I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Children, Heart

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• If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Self, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison (2018). “America's Founding Documents: The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Bill of Rights”, p.199, First Avenue Editions

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• Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

  David Brin

  Believe, Writing, Skills

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• How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.

  James Hillman

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  James Hillman (1972). “The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology”, p.92, Northwestern University Press

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• The movie business was changing, I didn't want to turn 60 in the job. I picked 60 as an age where you are young enough to have a new life but not so young you can wait. And I had this incredible need: I had been so blessed in life and I wanted to give back. So I left Paramount with great joy, I have to say, and with great fondness for the memories I have in the movie business.

  Sherry Lansing

  Jobs, Memories, Blessed

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Yet, there was once a king worthy of that name. That king was Arthur. It is paramount disgrace of this evil generation that the name of that great king is no longer spoken aloud except in derision. Arthur! He was the fairest flower of our race, Cymry's most noble son, Lord of the Summer Realm, Pendragon of Britain. He wore God's favour like a purple robe. Hear then, if you will, the tale of a true king.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Summer, Kings, Flower

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• In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Believe, Struggle, Challenges

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.17, Vintage

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