Prima Quotes
40 quotes by 38 authors
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On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year…
— Peter Karmanos, Jr.
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Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
— Queen Elizabeth II
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Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival…
— Peter Birks
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I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting on the feeble…
— Earl Doherty
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Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the…
— Edward Robert Harrison
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The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.
— Andrew Harvey
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But having considered everything which has been said, one could by this believe that the earth and not the heavens is so moved, and there…
— Nicole Oresme
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The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are abundant.…
— Israel Albert Horowitz
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It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these…
— Demi Moore
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Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American…
— Maria Tallchief
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The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or…
— Giuseppe Verdi
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It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism…
— Thomas Nagel
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It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism…
— Thomas Nagel
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I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.
— Marie Dressler
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
— Dan Rather
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It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old…
— Tom Waits
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The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after…
— Jennifer Ellison
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I've been a prima-donna. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled,…
— Mike Tyson
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The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same…
— Nigel Cole
Who Wrote These Prima Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 40 Prima Quotes, led by these top contributors: