Important Quotes
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When I look at Franklin Roosevelt's leadership, I think the most important quality he had during the Depression and the war was this absolute confidence in himself, in his country, really in the American people. He was able to exude that confidence and almost project it.
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I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.
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I'm not in the business of telling people 'DIY or die,' but I do think it's important to be as hands-on with what you're doing as possible.
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As a standup comedian, you have to develop a sense of fearlessness. It's really important for your livelihood and your well-being. And if you don't do that, you're going to fail; you're never going to be able to stand up on the cliff and jump off.
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At the beginning of the career is important for a designer to present his most representative pieces.
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If the NBA or the NFL play games outside their usual environment or their countries, why wouldn’t the Spanish Liga do so too? it’s important to develop our brand. It is within our short- and medium-term objectives to take a Liga match to the United States every year.
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Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
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On the whole, a director who make the set a comfortable place to work is really important, whether it's a comedy or drama.
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Moving with the times is an important idea for strategy today.
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I do weight training and follow strict diet. It is very important to look a certain way. I don't think being extra skinny and thin is desirable, but you have to be fit.
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Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
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Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.
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It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.
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There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.
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It's weird how much social media affects someone's career. Deals and jobs are sometimes based off how many followers you have, which is a little sad. I would rather that not be the case, but I understand that it's important.
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I love racing cars, and we have to have great competitors to make the diverse fan base have people to root for, and some people like calm, shy Ryan Blaney that knows a lot about the sport, or Chase Elliott, who's been around racing and has those deep ties to NASCAR and the southern roots of our sport. Those guys are all important.
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Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.
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Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.
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I think it's important to say that I am genuinely thankful for the time at Bellator.
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When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
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What's so important with fashion imagery and with imagery in general is that it ultimately evokes an emotion.
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Well, we definitely need a strong and clear and assertive America. That's for sure. But you've always got to build alliances. And so it's very important that we are able to build those alliances. And where we don't do what in a way to extremists want us to do, which is to make this into a battle between the West and Islam - it's not. This isn't a clash between civilizations. It's about whether the values of tolerance and respect for difference prevail.
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Without a story, people aren't going to connect to what you're telling, what you have a pain point about. It's so important for them to know why you've created the company, without that connection to the broader vision that you have - why are you going to do it? What are you going to accomplish?
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An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here Rome with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema.' "
