#prima

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dependency #fire #fling #flood #forces

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anyone #art #artistic #busy #fashion

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anxiety #away #certainly #children #commonly

If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#fail #get #govern #handle #implement

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact. ↗

— Sean Parker

#earn #freedom #i #impact #making

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated. ↗

— George S. Patton

#donnas #must #prima #prima donnas #successful

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#acting #actor #ask #brilliant #could

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. ↗

— John Perkins

#been #built #cheating #economic #empire

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes. ↗

— Thomas Peterffy

#primarily #rich #support #taxes #via

I think there's a lot of reasons for having an extended primary. I think super PACs play a role. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#having #i #i think #lot #play