The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is illegal. Not that… — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
I think, with Obama and the progressives, you've seen a massive expansion of big government, and it's all based on a moral… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because,… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
“Every good story starts with a simple premise. This one begins with the notion of survival. The determination to live is both… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even… — Lajos Egri Copy Share Image
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and… — Lajos Egri Copy Share Image
“If we accept the premise that we’re always wrong, it really removes the incentive to spend a lot of time trying to… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
I like the idea of what happens when someone tells a small white lie - which I think is the premise of… — Darren Star Copy Share Image
Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
To be honest, the first time round, I didn't think 'Fame Academy' was the worst premise in the world. You got people… — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It's the default premise in science: If you observe something in nature only once, you assume that what you've seen is typical.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image
Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
If you want the reader to accept the premise as a given, then being specific is vital. This is what I'm after;… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
I was on a show called 'SliDE' when I graduated from college, and then that set the premise of my love for… — Brenton Thwaites Copy Share Image
When I started as a White House correspondent, there was a lot of criticism from guys saying, 'She focuses too much on… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The premise and promise of Big Data is that there are no stories, only patterns; that the human preference for story is… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
The premise of anything you do - whether it's writing a song or any business - is ultimately that it hinges heavily… — Isaac Hanson Copy Share Image
A fundamental premise in cancer therapy is trying to identify how the metabolism of cancer cells differs from normal tissue. When differences… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligent species, and our descendants will interact with them face-to-face, thanks… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
People who want to express themselves need to be given an opportunity. For me, it's a very fundamental premise: you break the… — Bob Buckhorn Copy Share Image
The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
Canada was built around a very simple premise. A promise that you can work hard and succeed and build a future for… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists." [… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
You don't service a big, fun premise comedy and then shoot yourself in the foot with too much irony. You need the… — Shawn Levy Copy Share Image
Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of… — Lajos Egri Copy Share Image
First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
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