Important Quotes

• 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
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• As I got older and started moving up the ranking, the matches got more important, and my emotions ratcheted up. I guess I hid my real feelings behind the anger.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Up
  • Real
  • Moving

• What's important is to remain human.

  

  Katerina Gogou
  • Important
  • Humans

• I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • People
  • Important

• The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Important
  • Done

• Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Important
  • German

• The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Important
  • Reading

• Music and friends are the most important to me really, it's all I ever do.

  

  Zachary Wayne Farro
  • Music
  • Important
  • Friends

• Don't let the urgent get in the way of the important

  

  Kay Yow
  • Important
  • Urgent

• Good shoes are important. I wear English brogues in a wide fitting. They last me years.

  

  David Bailey
  • Good
  • English
  • Shoes

• The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Wealth
  • Creation
  • Distribution

• The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Age

• I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column - winning. Nothing else matters.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Important
  • Game
  • Winning

• It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

  

  Nursultan Nazarbayev
  • Country
  • War
  • Cold

• Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Work
  • Imagination
  • Energies

• I think that it's important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up, if nobody else will. And that's the kind of judge that I want.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• 17,000 children starve on this planet every single day. That fact alone should blow any conscious person out of their chair. You know, my mother used to say that a woman's most important job is taking care of her children and her home. I laughed at that when I was younger, but I don't laugh at it anymore. I just realize that every child on the planet is one of our children, and the earth itself is our home.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Children
  • Home
  • Job

• I was a vegan for two years, and I really enjoyed it. Then, I got to a point in my life at which I wanted to do something else, so now I'm a vegetarian. You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself.

  

  Lea Michele
  • Life
  • Good
  • Water

• I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family can benefit from my uptightness, I'm completely lacking.

  

  Amanda Peet
  • Family
  • Husband
  • Hippie

• Yes, I need to be fed but the need to be loved by friends has been as important to me than any lover I've had all my life. This is part of the reasons that my lovers don't stay because they are jealous of how much I care about my friends.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Care

• I want to cast correctly, and then I want them to live on screen. If I cast the wrong actor, I'm screwed. But, if I cast the right actor, it really works out. The casting process is so important.

  

  Andre Ovredal
  • Important
  • Actor
  • Casting

• I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Important

• I don't think it's wrong for companies to work with the government. What's important is being trustworthy and honest with customers.

  

  Alex Stamos
  • Work
  • Important

• My own take on the word "transgender" is that it's an umbrella term for anyone who breaks any rules, laws, guidelines or protocol of gender. So, to really be an ally, it's important that you recognize and embrace your own transgender nature. Really, I haven't met a single person who doesn't break some rule of gender. In other words, we will assimilate you. Resistance is futile.

  

  Kate Bornstein
  • Person
  • Term
  • Embrace

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