Important Quotes
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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.
Jared Diamond
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Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.
Marston Morse
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The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.
Pierre de Coubertin
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The questions are always more important than the answers.'
Randy Pausch
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The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.
Kirsten Dunst
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit - a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller
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It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it.
Cindy Crawford
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When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.
Alan Alda
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The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it.
LeRoy Neiman
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Affordability is critical so that patients have access to medicines. At the same time, it's also important that we have the kind of incentives that allow us to do the kinds of studies that we need to do to go after these diseases like Alzheimer's.
Kenneth Frazier
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Athletics and physical activity are important parts of youth development, in my experience and view.
Chris Gabrieli
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What would we be without the fans? They're more important than me, because they make our sport great; they make things happen. We put on the show, but if people don't react to it, we are nothing. So, the fans, basically we should roll out the red carpet for them.
Jens Voigt
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Apple was very important in terms of disrupting the music business and remaking the television business. They made it harder for people to make money on the things that they produce. In news, they've created Apple News, and they've tried to steer people towards information.
Franklin Foer
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What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.
James Caan
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It takes the fuel away from your endless, driving self-criticism. You will eventually be able to see more clearly that some things in life are less important than you had thought, and find it easier to let go of over-caring about them. You will find that the energy that they have been consuming can be used to treat yourself and the world more generously.
Mark Williams
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I feel compassion is so important to develop in ourselves. It's one of the most important elements of being a human being.
Ellen Burstyn
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Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you're writing. But the real key to success lies in finding the right characters to carry that story.
Joan Lingard
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Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.
Rafael Nadal
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In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.
Leo Ornstein
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The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.
Andrew Loog Oldham
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As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass as straight is a privilege that other folk I know don't have. It's important to keep in mind who really is in the most trouble and to direct our attention to assisting those people.
Ben Hopkins
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I think it's cool to be a rock star; I don't think there are many. There aren't many who speak out and take risks. And I think that's important.
Charli XCX
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The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them was just letting them be and trying to capture the unique spirituality that was in each of them.
Phillip Noyce
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Essential oils are extremely important to me.
Mary Steenburgen