#premise

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

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#certainly #dave #fiction #ghostbusters #i

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system. ↗

— Steve Israel

#finance #functions #generation #help #into

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#applications #costs #flaw #fraud #fundamentally

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance. ↗

— Dan Abrams

#away #because #dishonest #disturbance #does

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. ↗

— Russell Baker

#calls #closets #cockroaches #couple #grow

America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#around #awful #built #did #done

The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#built #family #gamble #hell #here

There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal. ↗

— Brad Carson

#appeal #change #choosing #climate #climate change