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• Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that’s a very sad thing. It’s film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that’s everywhere around the world.

  Alexander Payne

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• Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

  Jeff Hawkins

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  Government will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy – their own population.

  Avram Noam Chomsky

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• Men like to provide for women and their families. It’s in their DNA. I’m obviously no scientist, but I bet if you could hear a Y-chromosome talk, it would say, ‘I want to provide and hunt.’ When the woman is the primary breadwinner, it’s going against nature. I’m not saying that it’s bad or wrong, I’m just saying that it can feel off.

  Patti Stanger

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• The extremists took over the primary process.

  Arlen Specter

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• The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

  George Santayana

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• I’m not a propagandist, I’m not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

  Sir David Attenborough

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• In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.

  Conan O'Brien

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• A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

  William Safire

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• I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches – which you heard in the primary campaign – that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

  Ed Rendell

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• My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

  Julian Barbour

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• This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

  Wietse Venema

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• One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

  Lev Yilmaz

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  There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept the responsibility for changing them.

  Denis Waitley

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