Primaries Quotes - Page 2

• I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

  Mitt Romney

  Usa, Lost, Barack

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• A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us and we will win.

  Mitt Romney

  Winning, Doe, We Will Win

  Mitt Romney’s primary speech in Tampa, Florida, www.washingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

  Salman Rushdie

  Artist, Men, Mad

  "Salman Rushdie says TV dramas comparable to novels". www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2011.

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• Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Two, Differences

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• The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

  Marquis de Sade

  Change, Beautiful, Nature

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• The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

  George Santayana

  Use, Conversation, Impulse

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

  Jose Saramago

  Mistake, School, Writing

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• Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Quality, Care, Constituents

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• In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Illinois, Years, Community

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• A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

  Beverly Sills

  Art, Perception, Environmental

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• Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.

  Simon Sinek

  Opportunity, Challenges, Incentives

  "Getting the Best Leaders Takes More Than Money" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The extremists took over the primary process.

  Arlen Specter

  Process, Extremist

  "Face to Face" with Bill Plante, www.cbsnews.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Party, Sacrifice, Immigration

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• Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Immaturity, Church

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• Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

  John Sununu

  Years, Iowa, Political

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• Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Positive, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.35, New World Library

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• In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

  Tom Vilsack

  Past, Years, United States

  "Rebuilding and Revitalizing America’s Rural Communities" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.

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• It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Government

  George Washington (1948). “Basic Writings of George Washington”

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• I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way.

  Emma Watson

  Girlfriend, School, Two

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Jan 09, 2013

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• I'll give you a great example of an issue that no one brought up during this Florida primary, the fact that we're going to have a Chinese made oil rig put in place about 60 miles off the coast of Florida.

  Allen West

  Florida, Oil, Issues

  "West clarifies controversial 'get the hell out' message to Democrats". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.

  Olivia Wilde

  School, Artist, Earthquakes

  "Exclusive: Olivia Wilde on Music, Haiti, and Making a Difference". Interview with Catherine Straut, www.elle.com. October 1, 2012.

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• Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question that their capacity to work out complex things is extremely good.

  Robert Winston

  School, People, Work Out

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• I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

  Martin Yan

  Motivational, Money, Jobs

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• If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.

  David A. Bednar

  Father, Frustrated, Would Be

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• Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

  Abdul Kalam

  Teacher, Children, Creativity

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