Important Quotes

"So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things"

Diane Sawyer, Journalist

"I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"I did important films when I was very young"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time"

Christine Lahti, Actress

"Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself"

Anita Hill, Professor

"For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians"

Boris Yeltsin, President

"If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important"

Damon Hill, Athlete

"I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me"

Bruce McCulloch, Actor

"I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life"

Ben Affleck, Actor

"It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors"

Anna Friel, Actress

"And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist"

Anna Friel, Actress

"It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable"

Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist

"There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident"

Damon Hill, Athlete

"Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates"

Ben Bernanke

"With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue"

Anne Campbell, Politician

"Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin"

Aaliyah, Musician

"It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence"

Alex Trebek, Entertainer

"We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important"

Ann Macbeth, Author

"One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America"

Ayatollah Khomeini, Statesman

"Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else"

Barbara Kingsolver, Novelist

"But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life"

Amber Tamblyn, Actress

"The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history"

Kjell Magne Bondevik, Statesman

"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways"

Dennis Miller, Comedian

"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system"

Bruce Lee, Actor

"So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad"

Brett Favre, Athlete

"But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was"

Brett Favre, Athlete

"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity"

Helen Hayes, Actress

"The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity"

Helen Hayes, Actress

"Age is not important unless you're a cheese"

Helen Hayes, Actress

"God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole"

Ramakrishna, Leader

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