Quotes About Paramount

I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.

ALLODIUM  (ALLO'DIUM)   n.s.[A word of very uncertain derivation, but most probably of German original.]A possession held in absolute independence, without any acknowledgment of a lord paramount. It is opposed to fee, or feudum, which intimates some kind of dependance. There are no allodial lands in England, all being held either mediately or immediately of the king.

Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.

Nothing is as important as the biggest day in your life.

Some things are more important that life itself

When we first went to L.A., Howard Koch, who was the head of Paramount Pictures and later President of the Oscars, threw a welcome lunch for us at his house. There were all these stars there - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Lucille Ball, Natalie Wood, Henry Mancini.

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.

For some of us, money is vital and crucial but not paramount. It's simply a tool, a source of power used in service of others and a life well lived.

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

This is pre-eminently the case with Bentham: he both wrote and felt as if the moral standard ought not only to be paramount (which it ought), but to be alone; as if it ought to be the sole master of all our actions, and even of all our sentiments; as if either to admire or like, or despise or dislike a person for any action which neither does good nor harm, or which does not do a good or a harm proportioned to the sentiment entertained, were an injustice and a prejudice.

Man's mastery over nature, then, is a mastery which has less and less control over itself. . . . A world where techniques are paramount is a world given over to desire and fear; because every technique is there to serve some desire or fear.2 —Gabriel Marcel

We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless.

I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.

I'm in this new Showtime series called 'Ray Donovan.' I play this guy Stu Feldman who runs Paramount Pictures, so the total opposite to this character.

Your life, your achievement, your happiness, your person are of paramount importance. Live up to your highest vision of yourself no matter what the circumstances you might encounter. An exalted view of self-esteem is a man's most admirable quality.

We must have the meaning inherent in a profound system of value or the horror of existence rapidly becomes paramount. Then, nihilism beckons, with its hopelessness and despair.

The security and integrity of our election system remains paramount.

The storyline has always been of paramount importance to me. The subject and climax of 'Phillauri' touched my heart.

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

When a scribe asked Jesus in Mark 12:28 which of all God's commandments was paramount, He reached into the warm, beating heart of the law and raised these words above the rest: "This is the most important . . . Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength."11

Ownership is not the most important thing. IT IS THE ONLY THING THAT COUNTS. Nothing

Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

Safety is always paramount at WWE.