Important Quotes
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The United States is probably the most [socially] mobile society in the history of the world. The virtues that are most valuable in it are diligence, discipline, ambition, and a willingness to take risks. Education and credentials are most important in government; elsewhere most skills are learned on the job.
George Gilder
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In my opinion, life is more important than show business.
Penny Marshall
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Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.
Nick Zinner
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The importance of the House is... far more important than my future.
Peter Slipper
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The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.
William Francis Buckley
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It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises.
Eve Babitz
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I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those apparitions of 1917 . . . The future of our civilization, our liberties, our very existence may depend upon the acceptance of her commands.
William Thomas Walsh
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My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish.
Aerin Lauder
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The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans.
Mohammed Morsi
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I've always been the most vocal person socially about things that I feel are important.
Anupam Kher
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Focus is not a 'business only' thing. Each person has only twenty-four hours per day, and how we spend those hours shows what's important in our lives. The question we must ask ourselves is...Are we focusing on what really matters?
Mac Anderson
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Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.
Terence McKenna
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I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.
William Weld
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People do more for you when you make them feel important.
David J. Schwartz
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Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.
Henry Hampton
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To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.
Brian Aldiss
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Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.
Marcus Samuelsson
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Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.
Ray Bradbury
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I have a lot of people I think are important to me, a lot of different causes I like to talk about also.
Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
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One problem with people is that as soon as they fill a space it's them you see and not the space. Large, desolate landscapes stop being large, desolate landscapes once they have people in them. They define what the eye sees. And the human eye is almost always directed at other humans. In this way an illusion is created that humans are more important than those things on earth which are not human. It's a sick illusion.
Erlend Loe
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Oil is a very important component of economic growth.
Maria Bartiromo
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Whether or not punk is the flavor of the month is not important for us. Bad Religion has been popular through many different climates. When heavy metal was popular, when new wave was popular, Bad Religion was still there underneath the mainstream selling more and more records.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
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I do know that I can take a punch. I've been punched in the face three times. That's, I think, a really important thing to know about yourself. It helps you in life. It helps you be brave when you know you can take a punch. I'm a lover, not a fighter. But, God bless me, I can take a punch.
Sarah Silverman