Important Quotes

"I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine"

"My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

"How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question"

Ted Danson, Actor

"Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term"

Ted Danson, Actor

"St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

"A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

"It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty"

Stephen Breyer, Judge

"It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design"

John Romero, Inventor

"One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low"

John C. Hull, Professor

"The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"I think health is another exceedingly important thing"

Joan Collins, Actress

"Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind"

Nafisa Joseph, Model

"I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful"

Yo-Yo Ma, Musician

"It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book"

John McGahern, Writer

"It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing"

Martin Mull, Actor

"I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth"

Judge Mills Lane, Celebrity

"And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one"

Kurt Masur, Musician

"My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects"

Walter Pater, Critic

"I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts"

Richard Virenque, Athlete

"The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

"I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story"

John McGahern, Writer

"You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country"

Herb Brooks, Coach

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