William Ellery Channing Quotes
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
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I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.
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In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
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Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.
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What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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It's not important to me... people will see my films if they want to. Also, I cannot deal with so many things, I have bandwidth only for that much.
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God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.
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The sophist is concerned with wisdom, not for its own sake, not because he hates the lie in the soul more than anything else, but for the sake of the honor or the prestige that attends wisdom.
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I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
