#prior

The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#avoid #avoided #entire #entire lives #hear

What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work. ↗

— Peter MacKay

#connected #elected #ensuring #government #include

I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place. ↗

— Diana Ross

#i #keep #place #priorities #right

My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#first #growing #long #long term #priority

I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#biggest problems #citizens #clear #clear message #constructive

Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#agenda #become #clear #eu #focus

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#because #bureaucracy #cabinet #committee #environment

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#environment #gave #government #happen #integral

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#i #least #narrative #point #priority

Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks. ↗

— Joe Murray

#cancer #child #closed #corrected #days