Important Quotes

"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality"

Margaret Spellings, Public Servant

"I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was"

Rod Steiger, Actor

"I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day"

Jena Malone, Actress

"I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy"

Katy Perry, Musician

"Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too"

Chris Cornell, Musician

"The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past"

George Crumb, Composer

"This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists"

Donald Johanson, Scientist

"One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)"

Frank Gaffney, Writer

"It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow"

Anne Heche, Actress

"And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created"

Jay Carney, Public Servant

"Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both"

Dick Gephardt, Politician

"I think one of the most important attributes is perseverance"

David Rose, Musician

"I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already"

Andy Garcia, Actor

"And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on"

Brett Favre, Athlete

"I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself"

Maxwell Maltz, Scientist

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature"

Robin Day, Journalist

"All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first"

Denis Johnson, Writer

"Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out"

Stephen King, Author

"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The truth is more important than the facts"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The beginning is the most important part of the work"

Plato, Philosopher

"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery"

Plato, Philosopher

"For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions"

Plato, Philosopher

"Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other"

Abraham Lincoln, President

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