Important Quotes

"The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent"

"The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

"When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today"

William Weld, Politician

"The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique"

Ric Ocasek, Musician

"It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake"

Bille August, Director

"I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone"

Meg Tilly, Actress

"Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor"

Bill Scott, Actor

"Oil is a very important component of economic growth"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win"

Dorothy Kilgallen, Actress

"Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect"

Robert Fitzgerald, Author

"I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

"People in misery is what most important in art"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining"

Woody Harrelson, Actor

"But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

"To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: "Are your ready?""

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

"The most important social welfare program in America is a job"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

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