Primarily Quotes
552 quotes by 478 authors
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After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I…
— Alex Winter
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I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been…
— George Kennedy
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The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche.…
— Gertrud von Le Fort
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Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.
— Seth Klarman
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We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily…
— Ed Mayo
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Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.
— Dennis Weaver
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Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information,
— Ian Mcewan
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Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate…
— Jeff Miller
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Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the…
— Erich Fromm
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We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence —…
— John F. Kennedy
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I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get shocked…
— Francesca Annis
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Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or…
— Peter Zumthor
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
— E F Schumacher
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It would be rare to find a woman who hadn't endured some kind of ridicule for stepping out of line. When the market dictates that…
— Clementine Ford
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Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
— Robert Grudin
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If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its…
— Thomas Berry
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The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and…
— E F Schumacher
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If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason…
— Alfred Kinsey
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I am a fierce supporter of domestic-partnership and civil-union laws. I am not a supporter of gay marriage as it has been thrown about, primarily…
— Barack Obama
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