Important Quotes
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The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.
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As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.
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If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.
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Andy [Warhol] put on his fey kind of act, but he wanted to be number one and he succeeded. But you never know. Fifty years from now he might not be seen as so important, but the way our whole culture has gone, and the way it continues to go, is his way - for better or for worse.
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Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.
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My head is filled with so much crap, or facts that I find important, but that some others don't.
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All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.
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Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father.
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Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.
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I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role.
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
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It's important for my kids to see our family strong and united.
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So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.
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In order to get what we've got, Anita, we have, in effect, traded these people out of what was the most important thing on earth to them - the feeling of being needed and useful, the foundation of self-respect.
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I think for writers, I think it's really important to court eviction from your tribe: to expose things and to wake people up. And so I think that that can feel like a violation to the people you love the most.
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It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.
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First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.
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I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
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I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.
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What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly think it's insecurity. How do we let the world know that the trappings of this life are not the things that are ultimately important for being accepted? 2
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We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.
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I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
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Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.
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Throughout a lot of my 20s, my sexual allure and power was one of the most important things about me, my currency.
