Important Quotes
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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.
Queen Elizabeth II
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It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.
Martha Plimpton
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Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue.
Leonard Boswell
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Institutional memory is important in any organization, but so are fresh ideas.
Marianne Williamson
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It is very important to transform every disadvantage into an advantage.
Radhika Apte
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If salary is your most important consideration, make sure you don't take too much time off beyond the allotted 12-14 weeks of maternity leave - and certainly don't leave altogether.
Jean Chatzky
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It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.
Brittany Murphy
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My true role is to get actors to understand what the camera is doing and what my intent is so they don't waste their good stuff on over-the-shoulder shots and wide shots. They need to know when we're going in to get something important, so they know to really go for it. No human being can give you 1,000 percent on every single take or shot, so you need to let them know what you're heading for. It's important that the actors know they're being looked after and being recorded in a way so they can do their best.
David Nutter
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Foxconn is hugely important, not only in China - it's the largest employer in China - Foxconn is important around the world.
Charles Duhigg
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I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.
Jet Li
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In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.
Dalai Lama
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Risk management is the most important thing to be well understood. Undertrade, undertrade, undertrade is my second piece of advice. Whatever you think your position ought to be, cut it at least in half.
Bruce Kovner
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Notably, it was only possible [ negotiating on the Tarabarov Island], and this is very important, due to the high level of trust Russia and China reached in their relations by that time. If we reach the same level of trust with Japan, we might be able to reach certain compromises.
Vladimir Putin
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It used to be that in media, Johnny Carson used to be the most important person when he would invite you over to sit on the couch after your comedy skit. Now it's whatever Howard Stern says goes.
Lisa Lampanelli
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You can be in the public eye all the time and still have a private life, but the important thing is to keep in touch with the people who put you there.
John Barrowman
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The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.
Humphry Davy
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Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question 'why'? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important.
Michael Morpurgo
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You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur Ashe
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I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.
Lucy Hawking
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Leadership is by far the most important quality when it comes to making a show that's going to last and of superb quality, something classy and fun.
Andre Braugher
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Time is the most important factor in determining market movements and by studying past price records you will be able to prove to yourself history does repeat and by knowing the past you can tell the future. There is a definite relation between price and time. By studying time cycles and time periods you will learn why market tops and bottoms are found at certain times, and why resistance levels are so strong at certain times, and prices hold around them. The most money is made when fast moves and extreme fluctuations occur at the end of major cycles.
William Delbert Gann
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Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.
Melanie Laurent
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People don't realize enough how important and influentical John Carpenter has been in electronic music. He did his soundtracks by himself, using mostly electronic and analog synthesizers. He's a cult figure with DJs these days for good reasons.
Jean-Michel Jarre
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I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.
John Roger Stephens