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Quotes About Primary

I've heard it said that umpires are necessary evil. Well, we are necessary, but we are not evil. We are hard-working and dedicated people whose primary interest is to make sure the game is played fairly. We are the integrity of the game.
~ Doug Harvey
Every year, the State Department declares Iran to be the world's primary supporter of terror.
~ Michael T. Flynn
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.
~ Reza Aslan
The primary fantasy bond is the core defense underlying our resistance to change. It is the major barrier to a full, rich existence.
~ Robert W. Firestone
The "mind" is nothing but "thoughts"; and behind every thought, there is the primary thought, which is the I-thought.
~ Robert Wolfe
The first goal is always important.
~ Landon Donovan
In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
~ Stephen Covey
In fact, the 1960s were to prove a rich source of experiments showing that the primary reward effect of dissonance in forced-compliance situations is observed only if the participants are allowed to choose whether to perform the requested act.
~ Eddie Harmon-Jones
My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.
~ James Cronin
Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
Tests account for only a couple of hours within the six years of a child's primary education, but parents expect to know how their children are doing and the government has a responsibility to monitor and control standards.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
I'd been to an Orthodox Jewish primary school where, every morning, the boys said, 'Thank you God for not making me a woman.' If you put that together with 'The Handmaid's Tale' in your head, something will eventually go fizz! Boom!
~ Naomi Alderman
I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record.
~ Ann Wilson
To me the world of perfect forms is primary (as was Plato's own belief)-its existence being almost a logical necessity-and both the other two worlds are its shadows.
~ Roger Penrose
women are the race itself, the strong primary sex, and man the biological afterthought.
~ Rosalind Miles
For, as scientists acknowledge, "women are the race itself, the strong primary sex, and man the biological afterthought."1
~ Rosalind Miles
Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.
~ John Doolittle
aquel que ocupa el primer puesto, rara vez desempeña el papel principal.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
~ John Cleese
Acting is fun. It's not my whole life. It's not my entire being. It's secondary to my life. My life is primary. I'm running in the primary, as you know.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
For the U.S., the primary interest is our continued access to Saudi Arabian oil in adequate quantities... at an acceptable political as well as economic price.
~ William E. Simon
I grew up in the Bay Area until 1976, then I pretty much went all the way through primary and high school on Bainbridge, though like anybody who grows up on an island, I ran the first chance I got.
~ Jonathan Evison
I'm pleased to have the support of working men and women throughout the state of Wisconsin. And I found in the primary I did. Now the key is to get that turnout activated. And we know we can do that. Again, the temperature here is very, very high on both sides of the aisle.
~ Tom Barrett