Important Quotes

"Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap"

"The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans"

"My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color"

Danny Glover, Actor

"It's important to me that I should be free to express myself"

George Michael, Musician

"The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"There are a lot of dedicated people out there that don't get the recognition that we get, but they're as important as the people that are sitting in the vehicle"

Mark Kelly, Musician

"Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy"

Jim Costa, Politician

"Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties"

David Bowie, Musician

"Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready"

James Taylor, Musician

"It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns"

Mark Shields, Journalist

"Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"I think it is very important in this business to be an individual"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"Lyrics are really important for me"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst"

Jim Costa, Politician

"Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is"

Amiri Baraka, Poet

"Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not"

James Taylor, Musician

"There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different"

Brandon Routh, Actor

"What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice"

John McCain, Politician

"I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable"

Judy Holliday, Actress

"Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or touch. They're not material, but they're vitally important to us"

Judy Collins, Musician

"In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story"

David Morse

"The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis"

Stephen Jay Gould, Scientist

"One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves"

Francis Schaeffer, Theologian

"Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

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