Important Quotes
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Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very few botanists. I'm working to expand training for young students and inspire a new generation to make discoveries, spread the word about conservation, and increase protected areas throughout our country.
Corneille Ewango
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People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.
Zaha Hadid
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I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity.
W. Kamau Bell
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We all have different things that we go through in our everyday life, and it's really important to know just at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what you face, you know, that you're going to win at the end of the day. You got to believe in yourself. You got to believe in God, know that He's going to get you through it.
Kelly Rowland
Destiny's Child
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Fashion is fun, but it's not that important, really, is it? It's important to have other intellectual and creative interests.
Jerry Hall
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When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
William Greider
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I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson
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Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.
Bill Vaughan
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When depicting Asian people in movies, books, and television or as historical figures, it's more important to humanize them and give them all of the dimensions of humanity, and that includes sexuality. Ascribe the human the full range of human qualities.
Alex Tizon
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How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
B. C. Forbes
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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Margot Fonteyn
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The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I propose to make known to the [Paris] Academy [of Sciences] are principally addressed to the direction of the plane of its oscillation, which, moving gradually from east to west, provides evidence to the senses of the diurnal movement of the terrestrial globe.
Leon Foucault