Important Quotes

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers"

Edgar Bergen, Actor

"Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one"

Stendhal, Writer

"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"The important thing is the diversity available on the Web"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid"

Audre Lorde, Poet

"The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue"

Paul Pierce, Athlete

"The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine"

Donatella Versace, Designer

"Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

"A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million"

Graham Nash, Musician

"We want to get this good music to as many people as possible because I think it heals, it soothes, I think music is incredibly important, especially in today's chaos"

Graham Nash, Musician

"I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin"

Graham Nash, Musician

"Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood"

Audre Lorde, Poet

"We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging"

Jan Egeland, Public Servant

"I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit"

Marcel Proust, Author

"Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking"

Charles Babbage, Mathematician

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