Important Quotes
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I think that James Baldwin is, for sure, one of the most important American writer/thinkers of his time... not just African-American. He singled-handily revolutionized the political, artistic and historical discourses about America. He created his particular and original language.
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The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.
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... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself. Our tendencies toward goodness... are as innate as our tendencies toward intelligence; we could do well with more of both.
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I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.
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While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
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I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for me. What counts in life is to bring about more of your own dreams. In such a way that your life becomes like a fairy tale. This is what has happened to me, it is just like that.
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The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.
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Family is more important than ideology.
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There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely.
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Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.
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It's tough for me to move on from places, even though I realize that it's not only necessary but very important to be able to do so.
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I think it's important to be happy before you can make anybody else happy.
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There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.
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It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.
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I had one of those steel thermal mugs you carried everywhere with you as a kind of signifier of how busy, and therefore how important you were.
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
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Well, I've got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them.
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I think it's really important to be able to be honest with yourself and to know philosophically speaking what you've done wrong and when you've made a mistake, and acknowledge that, because you only learn from it.
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Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.
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I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there are in ... important positions in society
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She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.
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Train smart at all times and do your best to avoid injury. Training smart is more important than training hard.
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Look, when I got in trouble in school I got in trouble at home. Now when kids get in trouble at school, the teacher gets in trouble. So the families are important.
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I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so well-written that I don't have to improvise. I mean, I used to have to re-write whole movies; this is kind of nice.
