Important Quotes

"I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful"

Spike Lee, Director

"I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten"

Spike Lee, Director

"I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important"

Vera Wang, Designer

"The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed"

Diane von Furstenberg, Designer

"I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are"

Diane von Furstenberg, Designer

"I think it's important to vote"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been"

Benjamin Jowett, Theologian

"The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board"

James S. Coleman, Sociologist

"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential"

Frances Wright, Writer

"Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars"

Dale Earnhardt, Celebrity

"Finishing races is important, but racing is more important"

Dale Earnhardt, Celebrity

"I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job"

Sally Ride, Astronaut

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles"

Doug Larson, Cartoonist

"I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets"

Thom Gunn, Poet

"Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud"

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Diplomat

"It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"It's important to be true to yourself and your vision"

Nicole Polizzi, Celebrity

"Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words"

George Ade, Playwright

"Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood"

Jacqueline Bisset, Actress

"Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important"

Geoffrey Beene, Designer

"My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important"

Sidney Poitier, Actor

"In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life"

Ernst Mayr, Scientist

"When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can"

Ed Belfour, Athlete

"We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

"What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples"

Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Publisher

"I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex"

Thom Gunn, Poet

"The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us"

Jerry Garcia, Musician

"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it"

George Burns, Comedian

"The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way"

Norton Juster, Architect

"But I think it's important that things endure"

Robin Day, Journalist

"Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business"

Joseph P. Kennedy, Diplomat

"I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important"

Oliver Reed, Actor

"Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

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