Important Quotes

"The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important"

"We used to listen to all the marvelous operas on records. Music was a very important part of our lives"

"If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes"

Brad Dourif, Actor

"Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war"

Al McGuire, Coach

"Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow"

Toru Takemitsu, Composer

"For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals"

Michael I. Rostovtzeff

"What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment"

Eddie Albert, Actor

"Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played"

David Crosby, Musician

"While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community"

Burton Richter, Scientist

"The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy"

Bryan Magee, Author

"Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it"

Yves Saint Laurent, Designer

"Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds"

Sydney Brenner, Scientist

"Dave played an important part in our growing, but change occurs"

Stone Gossard, Musician

"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937"

Philip Warren Anderson, Scientist

"The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't"

Mo Rocca, Writer

"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous"

Margot Fonteyn, Dancer

"I made theater very important in the beginning of my career"

Marcello Mastroianni, Actor

"In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology"

Kenneth G. Wilson, Scientist

"It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time"

Jesse Livermore, Businessman

"Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are"

James Green Somerville

"The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

"Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration"

Barbara Smith, Activist

"Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well"

Roberta Williams, Designer

"Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful"

Pamela Anderson, Actress

"Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions"

Victoria Wood, Comedian

"In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential"

Richard G. Scott, Clergyman

"At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing"

Ray Davies, Musician

"If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood"

Mark Strong, Actor

"I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married"

Seth Green, Actor

"Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world"

James F. Byrnes, Politician

"Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that"

Lisa Kudrow, Actress

"Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important"

Kendrick Meek, Politician

"I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken"

John Robinson

"Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops"

Rick Larsen, Politician

"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything"

Raymond Queneau, Poet

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