"I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft."
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"There are different varieties and forms of capitalism. There are priorities within the capitalist society so that you can have countervailing forces come in and empower your working people and your poor people. There are capitalist societies that do not have poverty. America needs to understand that."
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"Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities."
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"I am very protective. I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life...in the back of my mind, she's my priority. And life is completely different now. I feel really, really just lucky that I can still do what I love, and now have a way bigger meaning. And that's to be her mother."
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"Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream."
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"People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me."
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"I think four Olympics is probably enough. Five Olympics is a long time, but there's nothing wrong with that if I'm into it and I'm healthy and my priorities can fit around that."
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"Communism is something that comes from the classics of Marxism that talked of a modern society we should aspire to. One that is truly fair where relations of monetary exchange are not the priority but rather one where peoples' needs could be satisfied."
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"[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform."
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"The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities."
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"I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves."
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"There's a lot of discussion about whether you should be a good live band or a good studio band. I think you can use the studio to make a great "studio record" and not necessarily have to reproduce exactly that on stage, but still be a great "live band." Having said that, if what you're going for is just the raw capture of your live sound, then that's cool, too - go for it! I enjoy working in the studio, though, and while I try to get near to an approximation of what's going on onstage, it's not my first priority usually."
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's."
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"I have that language and that set of skills to step out of the way and make music the priority."
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"When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple."
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"I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts."
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"Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on the priority list."
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"The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the world. Too much and for too long, we have acted as if our great military might and wealth could bring about an American solution to every world problem."
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"It's not only a matter of when to do things, but whether or not to do them at all."
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"I intend to lead my party, which is the only party that has a serious policy on the No. 1 priority of the people and that is the economy."
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