Principal Quotes - Page 13

• My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mind, Inability, Nuisance

  Source: www.slate.com

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• To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and black people will always be appendages of those kinds of dramas, or they will be comedic outlets. It will never change.

  Haile Gerima

  Drama, Character, White

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation added for the students, teachers, staff, and principal.

  David Lynch

  Teacher, School, Giving

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half of the world, but yet not a full one. For even this would be such an economy as the living on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest.

  Laurence Sterne

  Time, Would Be, Half

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...”, p.137

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• One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

  Thomas Gray

  Age, Vices, Fame

  Thomas Gray, John MITFORD (Vicar of Benhall.) (1866). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray. [With “The Life of Thomas Gray. By John Mitford”.]”, p.152

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• Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Privilege, May, Admiration

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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• Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

  Marvin Harris

  Sex, People, Different

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• One of the principal impediments to job creation is uncertainty on the part of American companies, large and small. We've all watched as companies have sat on a lot of capital. They're uncertain about what tax policy is going to be. They're clearly uncertain about how health care costs. They're uncertain about all the regulations on capital markets.

  Tom J. Donohue

  Jobs, Cost, Care

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• This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Real, Past, Identity

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.578, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Talking, Majority Leader

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• All the alleged key causes of SOE [State-Owned Enterprise] inefficiency - the principal-agent problem, the free-rider problem and the soft budget constraint - are, while real, not unique to state-owned enterprises. Large private-sector firms with dispersed ownership also suffer from the principal-agent problem and the free-rider problem. So, in these two areas, forms of ownership do matter, but the critical divide is not between state and private ownership - it is between concentrated and dispersed ownerships.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Real, Unique, Keys

  "Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism". Book by Ha-Joon Chang, en.wikiquote.org. 2008.

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• When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us.

  Marshall Ganz

  Inspirational, Kindness, Choices

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• The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Progress, Despair, Movement

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Children, Men, Joy

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• Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Ignorance, Discovery, Obstacles

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• If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.

  Rene Descartes

  War, Math, Battle

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• You can't live principals you can't understand.

  Stephen Covey

  Understanding

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• There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

  Douglas Hurd

  Past, Ideas, Understanding

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• We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

  Charles M. Vest

  Respect, Military, Long

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• Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.

  William Henry Ashley

  Ocean, Water, Connections

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• The principal reason, invariably, most "successful" giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.

  Tom Peters

  Change, Successful, Yesterday

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• Conversations I have had with school principals and students lead me to the same conclusion-that...there is an evil and growing habit of profanity and the use of foul and filthy language.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  School, Evil, Use

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• The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

  Robert Mueller

  Priorities, United States, Terrorist

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• The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Unity, Essentials, Republic

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• The truth then is, that the Russian Comintern is still confessedly engaged in endeavoring to foment war in order to facilitate revolution, and that one of its chief organizers, Lozovsky, has been installed as principal adviser to Molotov...A few months ago he wrote in the French publication, L Vie Ouvriere...that his chief aim in life is the overthrow of the existing order in the great Democracies.

  Denis Fahey

  War, Order, Democracy

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