#prima

I’d been traveling in Asia long enough to know that monkeys there are nothing like their trombone-playing, tambourine-banging cousins I’d seen on TV as a kid. Free-living Asian primates possess a characteristic I found shocking and confusing the first time I saw it: self-respect. If you make the mistake of holding the gaze of a street monkey in India, Nepal, or Malaysia, you’ll find you’re facing a belligerently intelligent creature whose expression says, with a Robert DeNiro–like scowl, “What the hell are you looking at? You wanna piece of me?” Forget about putting one of these guys in a little red vest. ↗

— Christopher Ryan

#monkeys #primates #intelligence

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused. ↗

— Joe Klein

#colors #confused #fair #journalism #journalists

With the Australian Government paying more of the hospital bills, it will have the incentive to make sure people are treated through less expensive and more appropriate primary care services. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#australian #bills #care #expensive #government

I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten. ↗

— Victor Salva

#fear #humans #i #i think #most

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#centers #constituents #day #each #every

Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#democratic #each #far #further #just

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#democracy #experience #fear #having #lived

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#autonomy #beyond #culture #environmental #function

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#god #him #holy #others #our

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches. ↗

— Kate Smith

#before #bless #committee #democratic #during