Prime Quotes - Page 37

• In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan. Of course, he would be only 12 years old.

  Jerry Sloan

  Funny, Basketball, Years

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• My father always would say, "My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister", but it's not what I wanted to do. I would say, "No, Papa, I will never go into politics." As I've said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me ... But I accepted the responsibility and I've never wavered in my commitment.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Life, Daughter, Father

  "Destiny’s daughter". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.thetimes.co.uk. April 28, 2007.

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• Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Conservative, Language, Initiative

  Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.74, Columbia University Press

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• Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

  Hal Borland

  Kids, Weekend, Shopping

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• Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Imagination, Perception, Agents

  Biographia Literaria ch. 13 (1817)

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• Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.

  Dan Quayle

  Children, Father, Character

  Remarks to Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, Cal., 19 May 1992

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• The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Imagination, Mind, Perception

  Biographia Literaria ch. 13 (1817)

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• Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.

  Bob Proctor

  Self Esteem, Psychology, Causes

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 23, 2014

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• A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism.

  Saul Alinsky

  Order, Evil, Political

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.10, Vintage

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• A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

  Bill Gates

  Events, Ability, Company

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• If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

  Brian Mulroney

  Ministers, Objectives, Known

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• I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Time, One Day, India

  "India's man for all seasons" by Siddharth Srivastava, www.atimes.com. September 29, 2004.

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• Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Past, Journey, Space

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• Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

  Brenda Ueland

  Inspiration, Solitude, Littles

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• The prime rule of reality is that we must become in our lives what we choose to experience in the world.

  Gregg Braden

  Reality, World, Our Lives

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• Even in my prime, I need God in my life because without God, we're nothing.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Needs, Need God, Without God

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• When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.

  Joe Theismann

  Mom, Catching, Receiver

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• The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

  Abraham Maslow

  Fate, Creating, Agency

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister

  Margaret Thatcher

  Years, Investing, Ministers

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• I'm a big fan of Israel and frankly a strong prime minister is a strong Israel

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Israel, Fans

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• That is why, as one who values the U.S.-Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech — saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations, and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Commitment, Love Is, Israel

  "Pelosi: Netanyahu speech 'insulting to the intelligence of the United States'" by Lauren French, www.politico.com. March 3, 2015.

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• If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Ideas, Worry

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• When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Three, Four, Ministers

  "Brought to book". www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2001.

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• I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

  Ann Brashares

  Beautiful, Mistake, Critical Decisions

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• I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Jobs, Thinking, Australia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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