Important Quotes

"And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me"

"But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places"

David Kay, Scientist

"We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria"

Douglas Feith, Public Servant

"Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend"

Mike Gordon, Musician

"I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do"

Diana Ross, Actress

"Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget"

Jane D. Hull, Politician

"I think you've got to talk to the director, see the director's films and recognise that it's important that the work fits right in and see if as part of the movie"

Dennis Muren, Artist

"The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them"

Charles Foster Bass, Politician

"With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use"

Bjarne Stroustrup, Scientist

"To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that"

Courtney Thorne Smith, Actress

"I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density"

John L. Phillips, Astronaut

"My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing"

Bill Veeck, Businessman

"When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important"

Bill Shoemaker, Athlete

"Limits are very important"

Colin Greenwood, Musician

"There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience"

Chuck Tanner, Athlete

"Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination"

Chad Smith, Musician

"There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours"

Douglas Hurd, Politician

"Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies"

David R. Ellis, Director

"The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals"

Gordon Moore, Businessman

"It is important to have a circle of Christians friends, which I do have"

Cliff Richard, Musician

"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear"

Bill Frist, Politician

"Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop"

Dorothy Height, Activist

"Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds"

Colin Greenwood, Musician

"The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation"

Avery Brundage, Athlete

"Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world"

Ashley Judd, Actress

"Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good"

Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Politician

"I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean"

Annabella Sciorra, Actress

"From those few pending questions which the Commission would be called upon to solve at its fourth session, the most important one was the entry into force of the treaty"

Alfonso G. Robles

"My faith always has been and always will be important to me"

Aretha Franklin, Musician

"And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint"

Algernon H. Blackwood

"It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers"

Bill Budge, Businessman

"It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source"

Andrew Weil, Scientist

"I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time"

Greg LeMond, Athlete

"India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship"

Pierre Pettigrew, Politician

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