Paramount Quotes - Page 5

• One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.

  Agnes Denes

  Lonely, Writing, Loner

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere in the world. And it is the gravest problem of land use: Modern humans typically are using places whose nature they have never known and whose history they have forgotten; thus ignorant, they almost necessarily abuse what they use.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Abuse, Ignorant

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• Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.

  Chaka Khan

  Spirituality

  Source: www.today.com

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• For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't think like that. A writer has to think that it's more important to be right than to be popular.

  David Hare

  Thinking, Important, Looks

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• We must never underestimate the power of the prayer that is lifted up by wonderful saints all around the world.
  Prayer is of paramount importance in developing our relationship with our Savior and in building up and supporting others through the work of the Holy Spirit.

  Will Graham

  Prayer, Building Up, Saint

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• There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

  Luke Rhinehart

  Dark, Men, Years

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• I'm the girl that works at Paramount all day, and Fox all night.

  Mae West

  Girl, Night, Foxes

  "Fictional character: Marlo Manners". "Sextette", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

  George W. Romney

  Selfishness, Needs, Growing

  "Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report", Volume 25, Part 3, p. 2388, 1967.

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• Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.

  George Rickey

  Should Have, Design, Movement

  Amerika-Haus Berlin, George Rickey (1979). “George Rickey: Skulpturen, Material, Technik”

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• Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the harsh realities of actual warfare. By definition, chivalry also reaffirms the paramount importance of custom, hierarchy and inherited rank.

  Linda Colley

  Reality, Essentials, Warfare

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• The effect of the corporation, under the prevailing policy of the free, go-as-you-please method of organization and management, has been to drive the bulk of our people, other than farmers, out of property ownership; and, if allowed to go on as present, it will keep them out... The paramount problem is not how to stop the growth of property, and the building up of wealth, but how to manage it so that every species of property, like a healthy growing tree will spread its roots deeply and widely in the soil of a popular proprietorship.

  Peter S. Grosscup

  Building Up, Organization, Roots

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• The paramount problem... is how to make this new form of property ownership a workable agent toward repeopleizing the proprietorship of the country's industries. Open to the wage-earner of the country the road to proprietorship... not as a gratuity, but as their proper allotment out of the combined forces that have made the enterprise successful.

  Peter S. Grosscup

  Country, Successful, Agents

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• The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter, there is no wrong way to become a Christian. It is the end that is importnat, not the means; it does not matter why you believe, so long as you believe. For the philosopher, in contrast, the paramount issue is the justification of belief, not the fact of belief itself.

  George H. Smith

  Christian, Believe, Mean

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• We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

  Dan Pallotta

  Powerful, Curves, Fundraising

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• Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.

  Robert Herrick

  Buying, Spirit, God Love

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• Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.

  Edmund Burke

  Independent, Men, Law

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.26

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• A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.

  Jeremy Collier

  Blessing, Greatness, Men

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• It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.

  Francoise Sagan

  Thinking, Common Sense, World

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• You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You simply have to say, "Look. I love you, but I cannot stand by and watch you kill yourself slowly. When you want help I'm here. Until then, goodbye." That may sound cruel, but self-preservation is paramount to helping someone else. If you're a wreck, you're useless to them, anyway. And if they refuse help, despite knowing the likely outcome, they will head down that path anyway.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Goodbye, Love You, Self

  Source: monsterlibrarian.com

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• Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Power, Men, Folly

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.382, Random House

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• With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Order, Water, Effort

  Statement by Alfred de Zayas on World Water Day, March 22, 2013.

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• Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

  Joseph Silk

  Challenges, Belief, Creeds

  "The Dark Side of the Universe". Astronomy and Geophysics, April 2007.

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• The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.

  John Marshall

  Mean, Law, Essence

  Marbury v. Madison (1803)

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• Having children changes everything; it changes your entire perspective about life since from the moment they arrive your new world begins and ends with them, your concern for their welfare is paramount over everything else and your life is scheduled around their needs.

  Tess Daly

  Children, Perspective, Needs

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater.

  Jack Gould

  Singing, Ears, Hysterical

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