#premise

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#because #being #britain #coming #each

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#book #comes #everyone #extent #ideological

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#every #family #information #knowledge #knowledge is power

The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is illegal. Not that it's bad, just that the law as it is now, is that if you die, you're dead. ↗

— Roger Spottiswoode

#basic #clone #cloning #dead #die

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#community #develop #fundamental #going #international

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#character #characters #down #five #like

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#contradiction #contradictions #exist #facing #find

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#flaw #give #i #i can #i do

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#capable #citizen #democracy #equilibrium #humanist

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired. ↗

— John Shadegg

#benefits #elderly #first #germany #i