Important Quotes
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Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it's clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.
John Abizaid
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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber
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In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.
Paddy Ashdown
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The shadows are as important as the light.
Charlotte Bronte
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Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.
Melvin Van Peebles
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Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.
Bruce Feiler
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Progress among the youngest children is especially important because we know that preventing obesity at an early age helps young people maintain a healthy weight into adulthood.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
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Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
Lois McMaster
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People sometimes forget how important Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow.
Hunter Parrish
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It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio's mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community.
Louis Theroux
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What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.
David Nabarro
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When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
Matt Groening
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Consumers have the right to know important information about the service they are choosing to purchase and/or use.
Ajit Pai
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In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.
Carolyn Kizer
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From my experience, the best advisors help in three ways: encourage you to look at the problem or opportunity from multiple angles; help you balance the tug of the short-term with important long-term priorities; and ask the tough questions you need to know to reach the best solution.
Margo Georgiadis
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What's important is to be myself! To dream doesn't mean putting yourself in a box. It means realizing the essence... of what you really want to do.
Bisco Hatori
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For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children.
Scott Turow
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Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.
Isla Fisher
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More than any other instrument, the relationship between an acoustic guitar and a microphone is super-important. The kind of mics that you use and your placement of the mics to the guitar can radically alter your sound.
Mat Kearney
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The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world.
Sepp Blatter
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I think that it's important not to take acting too seriously. It's all pretend. It's a strange job.
Michael Pitt
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You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.
Ken Robinson
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It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.
Jessica Simpson
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
William Ellery Channing