Important Quotes
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I believe in form and the manner of what you say being as important as the content of what you say.
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Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions. Learning and teaching are exchanged joyfully through deep listening and mutual appreciation.
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It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who better to look out for your best interests than family?
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It's important to set a tone and get some momentum.
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The personal mission statement was important for me because I believe that you can't lead others unless you have a strong sense of who you are and what you stand for.
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I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.
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I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.
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The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.
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To provide a welcoming path to citizenship for immigrants and to restore our civil liberties, our foreign policy platform is very important.
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It is more important to engage the public positively with choice and competition to everyone than to be directed into a benefit for a minority.
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If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.
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The biggest threat that we face right now is not a nuclear missile coming over the skies. It's in a suitcase. This is why the issue of nuclear proliferation is so important. It is the - the biggest threat to the United States is a terrorist getting their hands on nuclear weapons.
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When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.
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I think that it's very important to have the United States' engagement in many situations we have around the world, be it in Syria, be it in the African context. The United States represents an important set of values, human rights, values related to freedom, to democracy. And so the foreign policy engagement of the United States is a very important guarantee that those values can be properly pursued.
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No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.
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Everything important seems already to have happened.
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Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything.
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I think my faith is important. Being young as well, sometimes it's difficult, but I've got a good family behind me as well.
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But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.
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The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.
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Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.
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I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.
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What I really intend to achieve is to be that fly on the wall, and to try and observe as much as I can without affecting what I've seen. I want to get a sense that what I'm seeing in a place would have happened had I not be there. Were I to make myself an important presence, that would be lost. The danger of a certain other kind of reporting is that people give you what they think you are seeking. People know what you want. When I was traveling in Congo and Rwanda and people asked me what I wanted, I would say, "Nothing. I just want to be here." And that immediately disarmed them.
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You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.
