Paramount Quotes

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. (Irving Berlin)
I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night. View quote
Mae West
The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve. View quote
Frederick Douglass
America must always be the world's paramount military power, but we can magnify our power through alliances. View quote
John Kerry
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. View quote
Gloria Swanson
The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence. View quote
Voltairine de Cleyre
Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void. View quote
John Marshall
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. View quote
Arnold Bennett
Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief. View quote
Joseph Silk
Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration. (Recep Tayyip Erdoğan)
Our work is the embodiment of our will. The spiritual manifestation of this work is its effect. When such work is properly done it brings happiness, and when carried out incorrectly it assuredly brings misery. Humanity! Your will is paramount! You can command Nature if you but obey her! View quote
Viktor Schauberger
Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim
My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life. View quote
Abhishek Bachchan
Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or "dematerialized." View quote
Lucy R. Lippard
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. View quote
Bob Balaban
I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule. View quote
David O. Selznick
Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach. View quote
Dean Devlin
We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can. View quote
Dan Pallotta
Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant. View quote
Florenz Ziegfeld
We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism. (George W. Romney)
I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra. View quote
Ken Curtis
Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount. View quote
Lara St. John
I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount. View quote
Louis Begley
Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness. View quote
Martin Puryear