Prime Quotes - Page 18

• Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

  Alexander Downer

  Ministers, Yeah, Wells

  Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. September 20, 2007.

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• Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.

  Alexander Downer

  Thinking, Wife, Ministers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

  David Deutsch

  Fall, Apples, Numbers

  "Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence" by David Deutsch, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2012.

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• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

  Gavyn Davies

  Writing, Responsibility, Today

  "Resignation statement by Gavyn Davies", www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2004.

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• To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it.

  Shinzo Abe

  Believe, Approval Rating, Track

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• I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

  John Smith

  Thinking, Trying, Weapons

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• It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something to something. Now that from which generation proceeds is matter, and that to which it proceeds is form. So that, if matter or form were generated, there would be a matter for matter and a form for form, endlessly. Whence, there is generation only of the composite, properly speaking.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Science, Would Be, Generations

  Joseph Bobik, Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1998). “Aquinas on matter and form and the elements: a translation and interpretation of the De principiis naturae and the De mixtione elementorum of St. Thomas Aquinas”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice, I wanna be elected.

  Alice Cooper

  Cutting, Choices, Meat

  Song: Elected

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• Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Middle East, Philippines, Importance

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• Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no.

  Derek Jacobi

  Opportunity, Two, Knighthood

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• I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.

  Julian McMahon

  Father, Odd, Ministers

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• I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

  Kamisese Mara

  Ministers, Prime Minister

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• What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

  Lord Mountbatten

  Kings, Jobs, Firsts

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• I was not born to be prime minister, and I'm not going to stay here until the end of my life. I'm too young for that.

  Ehud Olmert

  Ministers, Ends, Born

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• Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.

  Keith O'Brien

  Government, Support, Pieces

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• The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.

  David Petraeus

  Iraq, Challenges, President

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• Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example of this. Instead of choosing to acquire the land, the State asked the private parties to negotiate with the landowners directly. The State merely acted as an arbitrator.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Party, Mean, Airports

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• Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can't get back to. I don't even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Thinking, Past

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• If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

  Dennis A. Ross

  Party, Reflection, Winning

  "Dennis Ross: 18 Months to Avoid War with Iran". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2007.

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• The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.

  John Redwood

  Mean, Reality, Thinking

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• The new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, while a vast improvement on his predecessor is not doing much, if anything, to slow that process done.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Done, Improvement, Ministers

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'm always open to new, innovative stuff and people trying to do stuff in a different way. I knew that the theatrical release would be like getting on the launch pad for Amazon Prime but I was okay with that because I think what Jeff Bezos and Ted Hope are doing is innovative.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Spike Lee Talks ‘Chi-Raq’ Kismet, Amazon Deal, Obama & Why Film Is Like Sports – AwardsLine". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. January 8, 2016.

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• He [Erdogan] has crept up to the edge talking about mistakes by pilots. But he also knows that with leaders like himself and Vladimir Putin, apologies may not be the answer. Just look at Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu apologized years ago to Erdogan over this incident off the coast of Gaza in which Turkish people died onboard an aid ship. And only just now is that relationship at least in talks to be improved.

  Peter Kenyon

  Mistake, Apology, Israel

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm always interested in something that Helen Mirren is doing. I thought her series Prime Suspect was unbelievable. I think she might be my favorite actress.

  Julie Halston

  Thinking, Might, Actresses

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• First of all, there's no separation of church and state in the Islamic world. They're one and the same. And so when President Bush or Senator Kerry or Prime Minister Blair says, "Look, adopt our secular democracy, look at how good we've done. We have a wonderful level of standard of living for our people," what many Muslims hear is, "Turn your back on God and follow what men say."

  Michael Scheuer

  Islamic, Men, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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