Important Quotes

"Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore"

"Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down"

Natalie Goldberg, Author

"I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter"

Soleil Moon Frye, Actress

"Where I am now, you're very much at everybody else's mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It's just important to know what your own goals are, because that's empowering"

Rose Byrne, Actress

"We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity"

Justin Sane, Musician

"I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us"

Charlie Gonzalez, Politician

"I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit"

Laurence Fishburne, Actor

"And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art"

Alan Lomax, Writer

"World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world"

George Schultz, Public Servant

"I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time"

Dave Holland, Musician

"I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read"

Vanessa Brown, Actress

"It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads"

Satish Kumar, Activist

"I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body"

Rachel Blanchard, Actress

"And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again"

Phil Anselmo, Musician

"These issues are so important. I just felt the best thing to do right now is contribute and go forward"

Bill Luther, Politician

"What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times"

Bill Russell, Athlete

"The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel"

Hal Lindsey, Writer

"During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity"

Georg Solti, Musician

"The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that"

Bill Kurtis, Journalist

"Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit"

Carly Patterson, Athlete

"The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous"

James Clavell, Novelist

"'Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace"

Ahmet Necdet Sezner, President

"What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer"

William Albert Allard, Photographer

"I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure"

T. Boone Pickens, Businessman

"I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"Art is such an important part of our culture"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself"

Michelle Pfeiffer, Actress

"If something's important to you, you make time for it"

Mia Maestro, Actress

"In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did"

Jerry Hunt, Composer

"The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do"

Barbara Ann Scott, Athlete

"Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic"

Susan Blackmore, Writer

"Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study"

Norman Lamm, Educator

"And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever"

John Pomfret

"The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible"

Joschka Fischer, Politician

"When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time"

Joan Armatrading, Musician

"I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books"

James Ellroy, Writer

"The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society"

George Gilder, Writer

"The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context"

Troy Perry, Clergyman

"The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult"

Tab Hunter, Actor

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