Important Quotes
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I could stifle my voice, or strip it. I know that I could, because we can do anything we put our minds to. I know that I could, but it feels very unnatural for me to strip my prose like that, in part because place is so important to me.
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Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.
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The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.
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Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.
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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
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I firmly believe that the most important feature of spending the people's money is complete transparency.
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It's important for Americans to know what the guys fighting the wars have been experiencing, not just from the perspective of a talking-head politician or a four-star general.
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I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.
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I don't know about being an icon yet but I definitely do love fashion; it's really important for me to resemble my music. I definitely look like I sound. Creating an image is an art form in itself, it's a really fun part of being a musician.
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I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.
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Coming from a town of 30,000 people on the Mississippi River, having 'Queer Eye' in 2003 through 2007 when I was in high school was really important.
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I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.
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It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love.
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You just have to focus on what's really important in life, and that's your friends and your family and the life that you build.
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Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.
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One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams.
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Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
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I think it is very important in this business to be an individual.
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Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.
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People now know how important it is to build secure systems to underlie our civilization.
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Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that we are trying to study and search for something - life - that we can't define in a rigorous way. We only have one example of a biosphere, so we can't really give a good definition.
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He believes what he says, and that's what is important. People have gotten into trouble because they were intentionally misstating what they knew.
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
