Important Quotes
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The more adept we become at cultivating an altruistic attitude, the happier we will feel and the more comfortable will be the atmosphere around us. But if our emotions fluctuate wildly and we easily give in to hatred and jealousy, even our friends will avoid us. So even for people with no spiritual beliefs, it is important to have a peaceful mind.
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Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.
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Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.
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It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.
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Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.
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One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
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Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.
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Instincts are a really important guide for any artist, but particularly filmmakers because it takes a lot to stay true to your instincts as a storyteller.
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The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
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Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.
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Women are extremely important shapers of my own life.
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if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.
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It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.
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Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.
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That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land boundary that we have with - Canada. We have trade missions back and forth. We - we do - it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America where - where do they go? It's Alaska.
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One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example.
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I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.
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I think it's very important to allow people into Ted Kennedy. Thousands of people lined the streets the day of his funeral.
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I guess really having a good support group around me and talking about what I've gone through is important.
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One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.
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Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.
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Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.
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There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.
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Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.
