Kenneth Frazier

In my house, education was the paramount value. And if you grew up in a neighborhood like mine, you were forced to decide early on what you stood for in life, because there were a lot of peer pressures that could take you the wrong way.

American Businessman

John Podhoretz

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

American Writer

James DeGale

Family is paramount, I am the baby of the family, I get looked after, everyone spoils me and I couldn't live without them. They are my life, and they keep me grounded. If I get out of line, my mum will tell me off.

British Boxer

Jerome Isaac Friedman

The education of my brother and myself was of paramount importance to my parents, and in addition to their strong encouragement, they were prepared to make any sacrifice to further our intellectual development.

American Physicist

Thomas Sowell

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

American Economist

Irving Berlin

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

American Musician

Jane Pauley

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

American Journalist

Lara St. John

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

Canadian Musician

Nick Wooster

Fit and fabric are paramount. If the jacket fits, it doesn't matter what price you paid for it - you will look and feel fantastic.

American Designer

Katharine Gun

Because I'm not ambitious it's not paramount for me to find myself in a high-paid job.

British Activist

Use 'paramount' to stress that something has the greatest importance or impact in a particular situation or hierarchy.

Utmost Significance

'Paramount' carries a formal tone, making it suitable for professional or academic discussions and writing.

Formal Tone

In context, 'paramount' rather than 'important', indicates the topmost priority amidst other considerations.

Contextual Priority

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Scientific Sensation of...

 didn't help either because I'm sure if anybody ever stand in line at the grocery store you know we see his face constantly so there really was no tolerable margin of error there were two studios involved Warner Brothers and Paramount and they both believed this would make an amazing film of course it was a very high-risk proposition there

How Benjamin Button got...

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Sir David Attenborough...

 The largest clam in the world is facing the threat of extinction, with more than 50 percent of the wild population severely depleted. And the ecological benefits of having giant clams on coral reefs are likely to continue only if populations are healthy, making their conservation paramount.

The fascinating secret...

 the needs of the community around here you are helping us and I will tell you even in times of pandemic we are seeing people come to the hospital because they are lacking food and they are lacking shelter because those needs are still paramount for people and so when you

How health workers are...

 But there's something odd going on here. Is it really true that humans will only take sustained and dedicated action on an issue of paramount importance when they feel they have a high degree of control? Look at these pictures.

How to shift your...

 all parents can agree, and that is whether they are tiger moms or hippie moms, helicopters or drones, our kids' happiness is paramount. That is what it means to raise kids in an age when they are economically worthless

Jennifer Senior: For...

 animal is paramount we have to although that our team is not compromised my job in this exercise is to protect the team and that's no mean feat she has to put herself between the team and the herd I don't know I always

Tranquillising Wild...

 similarities and absorbing our differences and embracing the old world as we enter the new we feel in not only essential to the enrichment of human life but also paramount to the pursuit

Carol Beckwith & Angela...

 Does talk of curing climate change undermine the will to cut emissions? This is a real concern, so we need to emphasize the paramount importance of reducing emissions