Important Quotes
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It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down.
Mary Oliver
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Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.
Domhnall Gleeson
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I think that a lot of our fashion history shows do touch on important issues. Fashion and Technology obviously does, because technology is impacting fashion in so many ways, from computer-assisted design to the way we actually purchase clothes online.
Valerie Fahnestock Steele
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More important than his record as a debater is Mr. Bush's record as a president. And therein lies the true opportunity for John Kerry - notwithstanding the president's political skills, his performance in office amounts to a catastrophic failure.
Al Gore
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The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.
David Sze
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The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck.
Lyle Lovett
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Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.
John Gourley Portugal. The Man
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In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.
Seth Godin
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~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important; I just have to position things differently.~
Faith Hill
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I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.
Annie Baker
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It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.
Danilo Dolci
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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
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You think about the legacy that you leave behind, and I've been very fortunate to be part of a very successful team, but I think the fight for equal pay and respect is something that goes beyond the field. I think it is very important, something that I'm very willing to take on to help the generations that come behind me.
Becky Sauerbrunn
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What your character does for a living is one of the most important choices you can make in a screenplay, even if their job is tangential to the story, because it tells you everything about the condition of their life. Are they doing what they love? Are they doing what they hate?
Alex Kurtzman
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Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed.
Joel Coen
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Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.
Joel Osteen
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Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.
John Abizaid
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Making a movie to entertain people, that's just as important as telling people about our stories.
Antoine Fuqua
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I think it's just important to not judge people based on their physicality because it's really about personality and people's hearts and souls. That's what drew me to Audrey Hepburn who is kind of like my icon.
Lily Collins
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In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
John Naisbitt
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It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.
Sepp Blatter
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'...I suspect that pain means little to you as your life-but both your life and your pain are very important to me.'
Matthew Stover
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I think that knowing where you're going is important, and it's not like, when Robert says that, it's not like we know what every episode of the next five, four, five, six seasons of the show is going to be. I think Matt Weiner knew how Mad Men was going to end. Vince Gilligan knew how Breaking Bad was going to end. Marc Cherry knew how Desperate Housewives was going to end. Along the way, the process of crafting those stories ... You don't know what the road, what twists and turns that road is going to take to ultimately get you there.
Chris Black
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I think when I started doing stand-up, that's when I really tried to question everything in my belief system which is - I think a pretty important part of being a comedian is really questioning things.
Jim Gaffigan